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Ben Ross Schneider

Ben Ross Schneider

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Political Science

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40
Citations
7516
World Ranking
502
National Ranking
279

Overview

Ben Ross Schneider is affiliated with MIT in the United States and works primarily in the broad field of Social Sciences, with a specialized focus on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, Education, and Development. Their research addresses a range of topics including Global Educational Policies and Reforms, Education Discipline and Inequality, Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America, Public Policy and Governance, Economic and Social Development, Politics and Society in Latin America, as well as International Development and Aid.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Teacher Unions, Political Machines, and the Thorny Politics of Education Reform in Latin America, 2021, Politics & Society
  • Chile's Inclusion Law: the arduous drive to regulate an unequal education system, 2006-19, 2023, Educational Review
  • Business and development: how organization, ownership and networks matter, 2020, Review of International Political Economy
  • Will allowed returns for regulated utilities keep up with inflation?, 2023, The Electricity Journal
  • Grounding the middle-income trap in a world of global value chains, 2025, Business and Politics

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Alejandra Mizala
  • Peter M. M. Cummings
  • Ricardo Cuenca
  • Sandra García
  • Ignacio Puente

The main venues for publication reflect the diversity of Schneider's research interests, featuring journals such as Politics & Society, Educational Review, Review of International Political Economy, The Electricity Journal, and Business and Politics.

Best Publications

  • Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin America

    Ben Ross Schneider

  • Hierarchical Market Economies and Varieties of Capitalism in Latin America

    Ben Ross Schneider

  • Business Associations and Economic Development: Why Some Associations Contribute More Than Others

    Richard F. Doner;Ben Ross Schneider

  • The Middle-Income Trap: More Politics than Economics

    Richard F. Doner;Ben Ross Schneider

  • Inequality in developed countries and Latin America: coordinated, liberal and hierarchical systems

    Ben Ross Schneider;David Soskice

  • Business and the State in Developing Countries

    Sylvia Maxfield;Ben Ross Schneider

  • The desarrollista State in Brazil and México

    Ben Ross Schneider

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  • A comparative political economy of diversified business groups, or how states organize big business

    Ben Ross Schneider

  • Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America: Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development

    Ben Ross Schneider

  • 1. Business, the State, and Economic Performance in Developing Countries

    Ben Ross Schneider;Sylvia Maxfield

  • Politics within the state : elite bureaucrats and industrial policy in authoritarian Brazil

    Ben Ross Schneider

  • Complementarities and continuities in the political economy of labour markets in Latin America

    Ben Ross Schneider;Sebastian Karcher

  • Reinventing Leviathan : the politics of administrative reform in developing countries

    Ben Ross Schneider;Blanca Heredia

  • Elusive Synergy: Business-Government relations and development

    Ben Ross Schneider

  • Economic Liberalization and Corporate Governance: The Resilience of Business Groups in Latin America

    Ben Ross Schneider

  • The Politics of Policies: Economic and Social Progress in Latin America: 2006 Report

    Maria Victoria Murillo;Ben Ross Schneider;Mercedes Iacoviello;Carlos Scartascini

  • How Democracy Works: Political Institutions, Actors and Arenas in Latin American Policymaking

    Carlos Scartascini;Ernesto H. Stein;Mariano Tommasi;Mark P. Jones

  • The fiscal impact of privatisation in Latin America

    Armando Castelar Pinheiro;Ben Ross Schneider

  • Easy and Hard Redistribution: The Political Economy of Welfare States in Latin America

    Alisha C. Holland;Ben Ross Schneider

  • The career connection: a comparative analysis of bureaucratic preferences and insulation

    Ben Ross Schneider

  • The politics of quality reforms and the challenges for SDGs in education

    Barbara Bruns;Isabel Harbaugh Macdonald;Ben Ross Schneider

  • Elusive Synergy: Business-Government Relations and Development@@@Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation@@@The State and Capital in Chile: Business Elites, Technocrats, and Market Economics@@@Big Business and the Wealth of Nations

    Ben Ross Schneider;Peter Evans;Eduardo Silva;Alfred Chandler

  • Organizing Interests and Coalitions in the Politics of Market Reform in Latin America

    Ben Ross Schneider

  • Why is Mexican business so organized

    Ben Ross Schneider

  • The New Institutional Economics, Business Associations, and Development

    Ben Ross Schneider;Richard F. Doner

Frequent Co-Authors

Sebastian M. Saiegh
Sebastian M. Saiegh University of California, San Diego
Mariano Tommasi
Mariano Tommasi University of San Andrés
Ernesto Stein
Ernesto Stein Inter-American Development Bank
Maria Victoria Murillo
Maria Victoria Murillo Columbia University
Mark P. Jones
Mark P. Jones Rice University
Laurence Whitehead
Laurence Whitehead University of Oxford
David Soskice
David Soskice London School of Economics and Political Science
Peter Evans
Peter Evans University of California, Berkeley
Stephan Haggard
Stephan Haggard University of California, San Diego
Alfred D. Chandler
Alfred D. Chandler Harvard University

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