José Tomás Labarca

I am a Lecturer at King's College, University of Cambridge. My research and teaching interests relate to economic sociology, historical sociology, political economy, sociological and political theory, the politics of public policy, knowledge and expertise, state bureaucracies, British politics and Latin American politics. 

My first book, Fragmented Policy Change, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in November 2026. My work has appeared in Socio-Economic Review, New Political Economy, The Political Quarterly, Latin American Research Review, and Revista Mexicana de Sociología, among other outlets. In 2023, the Political Studies Association awarded my PhD with the Walter Bagehot Prize for the best dissertation in the field of government and public administration.