KURT WEYLAND, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Professor Weyland's research interests focus on democratization, market reform, social policy, and populism in Latin America. He has drawn on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, including insights from cognitive psychology, and has done extensive field research in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Venezuela. He is the author of Democracy without Equity: Failures of Reform in Brazil (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996), The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies: Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela (Princeton University Press, 2002), several book chapters, and numerous articles in journals such as Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Latin American Research Review, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, Foreign Affairs and Political Research Quarterly. He received his doctorate from Stanford University.
This event is co-sponsored by the CLAS politics series and the Stanford political science comparative politics seminar.