Alejandro López Peceño

Welcome! I am a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute, where I arrived in September 2024 after receiving my PhD from New York University. 

My work applies tools from causal inference to study a range of issues in political economy, comparative politics, and economic history. I am particularly interested in understanding the processes that transform premodern apolitical individuals into modern citizens, leading to the emergence of mass politics, including phenomena such as contentious politics, the origins of political cleavages, and the rise of national identities. My dissertation studies how the expansion of education and voting rights shaped some of these processes in the canonical case of 19th-century France. In a second line of research, I investigate the behavior of civilian populations during armed conflicts.

Prior to NYU, I earned a BA in Economics from Carlos III University of Madrid and an MA in Social Sciences from the Carlos III-Juan March Institute. 

You can reach out at alejandro.lopezpeceno@eui.eu