Raul L Madrid
Professor, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
Phone: +1 512 232 7246
Email: rmadrid@mail.utexas.edu
Raúl L. Madrid is Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin and an affiliate of the Teresa Lozano-Long Institute for Latin American Studies and the Center for Mexican-American Studies. He is also the faculty undergraduate adviser for the Dept. of Government.
Professor Madrid specializes in Latin American politics, democracy studies, comparative ethnic politics, and comparative social policy, and he is currently working on a book on the origins of democracy in Latin America. He is the author of "The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America" (2012) and "Retiring the State: The Politics of Pension Privatization in Latin America and Beyond" (2003), and "Overexposed: U.S. Banks Confront the Third World Debt Crisis" (1992). He is a co-editor of "Leftist Governments in Latin America: Successes and Shortcomings" (2010). His articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, Electoral Studies, Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Research Review, Political Science Quarterly, Political Studies, and World Politics, among other journals.