Tuesday, November 3, 2026  12:20pm  Uris Hall, G-08                                                                                                                      Juan Pablo Luna grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay, and is the Inaugural Diamond Brown Chair in Democratic Studies at McGill. While mainly focused on comparative Latin American politics, his research analyzes how socio-structural conditions such as social inequality and state capacity shape democratic institutions and development trajectories. In recent years, he has researched how organized crime dynamics is contributing to reshape politics, states, and markets in Latin America. His books include Latin American Party Systems (with Kitschelt, Hawkins, Rosas, and Zechmeister; Cambridge, 2010); Segmented Representation, Political Party Strategies ni Unequal Democracies (Oxford, 2014); The Resilience of the Latin American Right (with Rovira-Kaltwasser; Johns Hopkins, 2014); En vez del optimismo. Crisis de representación política en el Chile actual (Catalonia, 2017); Political Parties and Diminished Subtypes (with Rosenblatt, Piñeiro, and Vommaro; Cambridge, 2021); Latin American Politics and Society. A Comparative Historical Analysis (with Gerardo Munck, Cambridge University Press, 2022); Criminal Politics and Botched Development in Contemporary Latin America (with Andreas Feldmann, Cambridge University Press, 2024); and ¿Democracia Muerta? Chile, América Latina y un Modelo Estallado. (Ariel, 2024).