Visconti, Giancarlo

Bio

Giancarlo is an Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and completed his undergraduate studies at the Universidad Católica de Chile.

He studies comparative political behavior in contexts of insecurity and social change, with a regional focus on Latin America. His research examines how crime, migration, and other sources of uncertainty shape political attitudes, ideology, and accountability among citizens and political leaders. Across this work, Giancarlo uses and advances methods for drawing causal inferences from both experimental and observational data.

His research has been published or is forthcoming in the Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Science Research and Methods, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Behavior, Electoral Studies, and Latin American Politics and Society, among other outlets.