I am Dr Daniel H. Alves, a comparative political economist specialising in the politics of development and economic Inequality. I hold concurrent academic appointments at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where I serve as a Research Officer at the International Inequalities Institute and the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity, and at King's College London, where I am a part-time Lecturer at King’s Brazil Institute.

My research agenda evaluates how political factors, such as electoral competition and coalition dynamics, shape public policy reforms and socioeconomic outcomes. I have published peer-reviewed articles in Politics (2025), Politics & Policy (2024), and the Latin American Research Review (2024). Currently, my projects cross regional borders: I lead research coordination for the Latin America and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR), the African Inequality Review (AIR), and Relational Humanity. I am also co-authoring comparative papers on right-wing social policy in Latin America and, through a research grant awarded by the Eteron Institute and King's, the European Union’s industrial strategy (the Competitiveness Compass), using mixed methods and automated content analysis via Large Language Models.

Since September 2020, I have delivered higher education instruction as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Part-Time Lecturer. Most recently, I convened the undergraduate module Comparative Social Policy (104 students) at King's Department of Political Economy and supervised six undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations. In recognition of my inclusive and active-learning approach, I was nominated for multiple King's Education Awards (2025, 2023) and awarded the Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in 2026.

Beyond teaching and research, I regularly contribute to public engagement initiatives. This includes authoring the LACIR Series on the UCL Institute of the Americas Blog, publishing commentaries for Political Insight (2025) and the LSE Inequalities Blog (2025), and delivering invited presentations at Canning House (2026), the University of Oxford (2025), and PUC-Rio (2025).

Research Interests

• Comparative political economy
• Politics of development
• Economic inequality

Publications

Alves, Daniel H. 2025. What Explains Equity-Enhancing Reforms Under Centre-Right Governments? Evidence From Brazil. Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957241310577

Alves, Daniel H. 2024. Elections, Coalitions, and the Politics of Brazil’s Macroeconomic Stabilization. Politics & Policy 52 (6): 1227-1245. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12637

Alves, Daniel H. 2024. Partisanship, Cross-Party Coalitions, and Social Policymaking in Brazil. Latin American Research Review 58 (3): 570-587. https://doi.org/10.1017/lar.2024.33