Economic Reform in Latin America

The New Politics of Latin America
Faculty Development Workshop Series 2003-2004

Latin America in the Global Economy: Macroeconomic Policy, Social Welfare, and Political Democracy
Robert Kaufman
Rutgers University

Moderator: Mauricio Font
Director, Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies
Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Robert R. Kaufman received his PhD. from Harvard University, and has been a Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University since 1968. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Pennsylvania and Yale Universities, and since 1985, he has been a Research Associate of the Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies at Columbia University. He has written extensively on the politics of economic reform and democratic transitions, with a particular focus on Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Chile. He is author of The Politics of Economic Stabilization in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico (Berkeley Institute for International Studies,1988), co-editor of The Politics of Economic Adjustment (Princeton University Press,1992),and co-author of The Political-Economy of Democratic Transitions (Princeton University Press, 1995). Most recently, he has co-edited and contributed to Reforming the State: Fiscal and Welfare Reform in Post-Socialist Countries, Cambridge University Press, 2000. His current research focuses on the politics of welfare reform in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and East Asia.