• ISBN13: 9780521836517
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Cambridge UP
• Publisher Imprint: Cambridge
• Publication Date: April 15, 2004
• Pages: 336
• Original Price: USD 97.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 558 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

About the Book Ben Schneider's comparative historical analysis of the incorporation of business into politics in Latin America examines business organization and political activity over the last century in five of the largest and most developed countries of the region. Schneider's explanation for why business became better organized in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico than in Argentina and Brazil, lies neither in economic characteristics of business nor broader political parameters, but rather in the cumulative effect of state policy actions.

Schneider, Ben Ross: - Ben Ross Schneider is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. Schneider's articles and other publications focus on a range of issues in Latin American politics and development including privatization, democratization, regional integration, corporate organization, and market-oriented reforms. He is the author of Politics within the State (1991), and co-editor of Business and the State in Developing Countries (1997, with Sylvia Maxfield) and Reinventing Leviathan (2203, with Earlene Ross Fowler). He has received fellowships and research funding from the Tinker Foundation, the Searle Foundation, the Heinz Foundation, and the Fulbright Program.