Dr Daniel H. Alves is an early-career political economist with teaching and research appointments at King's College London and the London School of Economics and Political Science. At King's, he convenes the module Comparative Social Policy at the Department of Political Economy and leads seminars, as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, in the module Research Methods in War Studies and International Relations at the Department of War Studies. He is also an undergraduate and postgraduate dissertation supervisor at the Department of Political Economy, a Guest Lecturer and Affiliate at King's Brazil Institute, and a Researcher in Public Policy at the Policy Institute. At the LSE International Inequalities Institute, Dr Alves is the Project Coordinator of the Latin America and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR).

His research has contributed to interdisciplinary debates in the fields of comparative and international political economy and the politics of development and public policy, particularly with respect to the questions of what political variables shape economic inequality outcomes, how equity-enhancing reforms emerge, and why some social policies succeed in being enacted while others fail. Additionally, Dr Alves currently collaborates with other researchers on projects examining the distributional conflicts that affect democratic stability and consolidation, as well as economic growth strategies, in both the Global South and the rich world. His research has been published in the internationally recognised peer-reviewed journals Politics, Politics & Policy, and Latin American Research Review, and he has also written commentaries and shorter pieces, including for the LSE Inequalities Blog and the King's Brazil Institute Blog.

Dr Alves received a PhD in Political Economy from King's College London in February 2025. He is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and students have nominated him for the King’s Education Award 2025 and 2022 and the King's School of Politics and Economics GTA Award 2023.

Research Interests

• Comparative political economy
• International political economy
• Politics of development

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