Contributors
- Contributors
Ronald E. Ahnen is an assistant professor of politics at Saint Mary´s College of California. In the area of Latin American politics, his research interests include the politics of public safety policy and human rights conditions, Brazilian politics, homelessness and housing policy, and the politics of microcredit lending. His recent writing has appeared in the International Journal of Children’s Rights and the Bulletin for Latin American Research. A book manuscript in progress is “Democracy vs. Rights: The Politics of Police Violence and Public Safety Policy in Brazil.”
Vinícius C. Buranelli is a graduate of the University of São Paulo Law School. His research focuses on democratic theory, political participation, public policy, and public administration. His recent publications include collaborative work on the effect of courts on AIDS policy in Brazil, and on partnership rules and capital markets, as well as his own work on the use of Brazilian courts as an accountability mechanism.
Laura Gómez Mera is a visiting assistant professor of international studies at the University of Miami. Her research interests include the politics of regional trade agreements and the political economy of development, with special reference to Latin America. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the politics of trade disputes in Mercosur.
Lynn R. Horton is an assistant professor of sociology at Chapman University. Her research interests include Central America, development, social movements, and gender. Her book Grassroots Struggles for Sustainability in Central America (forthcoming) explores sustainable development in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
Wendy Hunter is an associate professor of government at the University of Texas and a LAPS Editorial Board member. Her early work focused on Latin American militaries during the transition from authoritarianism; more recently, she has written on social policy decisionmaking and human capital formation in Latin America. A current book project explores the growth and transformation of the Workers’ Party in Brazil from 1989 to the present. Hunter is the author of Eroding Military Influence in Brazil (1997) and articles in Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Political Science Quarterly, and other journals. [End Page iii]
Timothy J. Power is University Lecturer in Brazilian Studies and a fellow of St. Cross College at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on elections, parties, and legislatures in Latin America, with particular emphasis on Brazil. With Nicol C. Rae, he wrote Exporting Congress? The Influence of the U.S. Congress on World Legislatures (2006); and with Peter R. Kingstone, he is currently preparing Democratic Brazil Revisited. Power is a member of the Editorial Board of LAPS and immediate past president of the Brazilian Studies Association.
Julio Ríos-Figueroa is an assistant professor in the Political Science Department at CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica) and Hauser Research Scholar at the New York University School of Law. His research concerns judicial independence, corruption, and democratic consolidation in Latin America. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Latin American Studies and Comparative Political Studies.
Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano is a research fellow in the Department of Economic History and the Institute of Latin American Studies at Stockholm University, where he conducts research on regional integration. His recent publications include “Latinoamérica: Reflections on Globalisation, State, Nationhood and Development,” in a special issue of Iberoamericana: Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 38, 1 (2007); and his Ph.D. thesis, Mirrors of Change: A Study of Business Associations in Chile and Uruguay, Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University (2003).
Matthew M. Taylor is an assistant professor of political science at the University of São Paulo. His current research focuses on courts, corruption, and public policy, and has been published in Comparative Politics, the Latin American Research Review, and the Journal of Latin American Studies. [End Page iv]
