ROBERT KAUFMAN, Professor, received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has been a Research Associate at the Harvard Center for International Affairs in l967-68 and again in l975-76. In l980-8l he was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and a Research Fellow at the Collegium Budapest in 1997. From 2001 to 2003, he served as a member of the Executive Council and as Treasurer of the American Political Science Association. He has written widely on authoritarianism and democratic transitions in Latin America and the political economy of economic reform. His current research is on democratization and social policy reform in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and East Asia.

He is co-author (with Stephan Haggard) of The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (with Stephan Haggard), winner of the 1995 Leubbert Prize for the best book in comparative politics, awarded by the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Other publications include: Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives: Social Sector Reform, Globalization and Democratization in Latin America (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), co-edited with Joan Nelson; "Latin America in the Global Economy: Macroeconomic Policy, Social Welfare, and Political Democracy," in States, Markets, and Just Growth: Development in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Atul Kohli, Chung-in Moon, and Georg Sorensen (The United Nations University, 2003); "Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Social Spending in Latin America 1973-1997: A Cross-Sectional Time Series Analysis." World Politics, July 2001, co-authored with Alex Segura-Ubiergo; Reforming the State (Cambridge University Press 2000), co-edited with Janos Kornai and Stephan Haggard; "Attitudes toward Economic Reform in Mexico: The Role of Political Orientations" American Political Science Review June 1998, co-authored with Leo Zuckermann.