Prof. Ben Ross Schneider

Professor Schneider's teaching and research interests fall within the general fields of comparative politics, political economy, and Latin American politics. His books include Politics within the State: Elite Bureaucrats and Industrial Policy in Authoritarian Brazil (Pittsburgh University Press, 1991), Business and the State in Developing Countries (Cornell University Press, 1997), Reinventing Leviathan: The Politics of Administrative Reform in Developing Countries (North-South/Lynne Rienner, 2003), and Business Politics and the State in 20th Century Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2004). He also has published on topics such as economic reform, democratization, technocracy, administrative reform, education policy, the developmental state, business groups, and comparative bureaucracy. Schneider's current research examines the distinct institutional foundations of capitalist development in Latin America with particular attention to diversified business groups, foreign investment, human capital, labor markets, and commodity-led growth.