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Hector Schamis

Former Fellow

    Term

    August 1, 2002 — May 1, 2003

    Professional affiliation

    Georgetown University

    Wilson Center Projects

    "Democratic Capitalism and the State in Eastern Europe and Latin America"

    Full Biography

    After obtaining my undergraduate degree in Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires, I pursued doctoral studies in Political Science at Columbia University. Since obtaining my Ph.D. degree I have been an Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University. Previously, I had appointments at the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, and the Kellogg Institute of the University of Notre Dame in the U.S. I also was a visiting scholar at Cambridge University in England, at CIEPLAN (Corporation for Latin American Economic Research) in Santiago, Chile, and at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. In addition, I have also participated in research projects with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (UN-ECLA) and with the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), and I have been a consultant for the Ministry of Social Development of Argentina.

     

    Education

    Ph.D. in Political Science, Columbia University

     

    Expertise

    Comparative political economy, the politics of market reform, comparative democratization; Latin America and East-Central Europe

    Major Publications

    • "Argentina: Crisis and Democratic Consolidation." Journal of Democracy, 13, 2; April 2002.

       
    • Re-Forming the State: The Politics of Privatization in Latin America and Europe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.

       
    • "Distributional Coalitions and the Politics of Economic Reform in Latin America." World Politics, 50, 2, January 1999.