Jorge Antonio Alves (PhD, Brown University) is Associate Professor of Political Science at Queens College, CUNY, where he teaches courses on comparative and international politics of Latin America, and the political economy of development in the Global South. He is also the current director of Queens College’s Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) program, where he has organized a long-running interdisciplinary speaker series.

His research focuses on Brazilian subnational politics, particularly on how political parties choose how they will compete nationally and locally and the effect of those choices on governance institutions that provide public goods like social services, especially public health. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics and Society, and the Journal of Politics in Latin America, as well as edited volumes by Brookings Press. Dr. Alves was also a contributor to the Washington Post’s Washington Post‘s Monkey Cage (now Good Authority), NPR, and other media.

He is currently working on a fieldwork-based book project about how the Brazilian public health care system responded to the twin stress tests of the COVID-19 pandemic and the illiberal turn in western democracies.

Subfields
Comparative Politics

Academic Interests
Subnational Politics | Political Parties | Social Policy & the Welfare State | Political Economy of Development

Research Methods
Qualitative Methods | Multi-Method Research | Fieldwork

Geographic Regions of Study
Brazil | Latin America

Comparative Politics (PSCI 103) | Research Skills in Political Science (PSCI 200) | Sports, Politics & Society (PSCI 209) | Politics of Development (PSCI 230) | Politics of Latin America (PSCI 239) | Latin America in World Politics (PSCI 259) | Seminar: Global Poverty & Inequality (PSCI 383W)