Research

• Areas of specialization include comparative politics, Latin American politics, and economic and political issues in the developing world.

• Author of Guardians of the Nation?: Economists, Generals, and Economic Reform in Latin America (University of Notre Dame Press, 2002) and co-author of Politics and Foreign Direct Investment (University of Michigan Press, 2012).

• Currently working on several projects that examine foreign direct investment, sovereign bond ratings, the IMF, and democratization.