Juan Campos

Juan Campos is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science and a Research Fellow at the Center on the Politics of Development at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the politics of policing and police reform in Latin America, with a primary emphasis on Mexico. Specifically, his dissertation examines subnational police centralization policies and their effectiveness in addressing organized crime and corruption amid the drug war. He employs mixed-methods approaches, including experimental designs, interviews, and process tracing.

Campos holds M.A. degrees in Political Science from UC Berkeley and California State University, Long Beach, and a B.A. in Government & International Politics from George Mason University. His secondary subfields include Methodology & Formal Theory.

He is affiliated with the Center on the Politics of Development, which emphasizes interdisciplinary research on governance challenges in developing regions. No scientific awards or formal advisees are listed in the provided materials.