Robert R. Kaufman

Professor of Political Science

Department of Political Science

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Office Telephone: (732) 932-9280

Email: Kaufrutger@aol.com

Curriculum Vitae: PDF

Recent Work

Published Books

1.) Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives: Social Sector Reform, Globalization and Democratization in Latin America, co-edited with Joan M. Nelson. (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). Choice award as “An Outstanding Academic Title of 2005.”

2.) Reforming the State: Fiscal and Welfare Reform in Transition Economies, co-edited with Janos Kornai and Stephan Haggard. (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

3.) The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions, co-authored with Stephan Haggard. (Princeton University Press, 1995). Winner of the Leubbert Prize for the best book in comparative politics in 1995, awarded by the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

Published Articles & Book Chapters

1.) “Political Economy and the ‘New Left’”. Published in The ‘New Left’ and Democratic Governance in Latin America, edited by Cynthia J. Arnson, with Jose Raul Perales. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Latin American Program. Washington, D.C. August 2007. (MSWord)

2.) “Market Reform and Social Protection: Lessons from the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland.” East European Politics & Society, February 2007. (PDF)

3.) “Revising Social Contracts: Social Spending in Latin America, East Asia, and the Former Socialist Countries, 1980-2000” (co-authored with Stephan Haggard). Revista de Politica, XXIV, 1, 2004, pp. 3-37. (PDF)

4.) "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).

5.) Co-author (with Alex Segura-Urbiergo), "Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Social Spending in Latin America 1973-1997: A Cross-Sectional Time Series Analysis." World Politics, July 2001. (PDF) The dataset used in this article can be downloaded here in Excel format.

6.) "Approaches to the Politics of State Reform," Comparative Politics, April 1999. (PDF)

7.) Co-author (with Leo Zuckermann) "Attitudes toward Economic Reform in Mexico: The Role of Political Orientations" American Political Science Review, June 1998. (PDF)

Work in Progress

1.) Book Manuscript: Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Co-authored with Stephan Haggard. (Princeton University Press, forthcoming in 2008). Chapters can be downloaded below in both PDF and MSWord.

Introduction: “Towards a Political Economy of Social Policy” (PDF / MSWord)

Chapter 1: “Social Policy in Latin America, East Asia and Eastern Europe, 1945-1980: An Overview” (PDF / MSWord)

Chapter 2: “The Expansion of Welfare Commitments in Latin America, 1945-1980” (PDF / MSWord)

Chapter 3: “The Evolution of Social Contracts in East Asia, c. 1950-1980” (PDF / MSWord)

Chapter 4: “Building the Socialist Welfare State: The Expansion of Social Commitments in Eastern Europe” (PDF / MSWord)

Chapter 5: “The Political Economy of Welfare Reform” (PDF / MSWord)

Chapter 6: “Democracy, Growth and the Evolution of Social Contracts in East Asia, 1980-2005” (PDF / MSWord)

Chapter 7: “Democracy, Economic Crisis and Social Policy in Latin America” (PDF / MSWord)

Chapter 8: “The Transformation of the Socialist Welfare State, 1990-2005” (PDF / MSWord)

Conclusion: “Latin America, East Asia, Eastern Europe and the Theory of the Welfare State” (PDF / MSWord)

Appendices & Bibliography (MSWord)

2.) The Political Effects of Inequality in Latin America: Some Inconvenient Facts”, prepared for the “Workshop on Inequality,” Princeton University, September 21, 2007. (Downloadable here in MSWord).

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Last Updated: October 15, 2007