Contributors

Moisés Arce (Frederick A. Middlebush Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Missouri) has been with the department since 2006. He received his PhD in 2000 from the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Market Reform in Society (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005), Resource Extraction and Protest in Peru (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014), and numerous articles in such journals as Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, European Political Science Review, International Organization, Journal of Politics, Journal of Politics in Latin America, Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Research Review, Party Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Studies in Comparative International Development, and World Politics. His research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. He previously taught at Louisiana State University. Professor Arce has served as a visiting Fulbright lecturer at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2003), and as a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo (2014). From 2004 to 2006, he served as cochair of the Peru Section, an interdisciplinary organization of the Latin American Studies Association.

Jeffrey Ayres is a professor in the Department of Political Science, Saint Michael’s College in Vermont. He is coeditor with Peter Andrée, Michael Bosia, and Marie-Josée Massicotte of Globalization and Food Sovereignty: Global and Local Change in the New Politics of Food (University of Toronto Press, 2014), and with Laura Macdonald of North America in Question: Regional Integration in an Era of Political Turbulence (University of Toronto Press, 2012). He is also coeditor with Laura Macdonald of Contentious Politics in North America: National Protest and Transnational Collaboration under Continental Integration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and author of Defying Conventional Wisdom: Political Movements and Popular Contention Against North American Free Trade (University of Toronto Press, 1998).

Carew E. Boulding is associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research examines the role of nongovernmental organizations in local politics in developing democracies. Boulding is the author of NGOs, Civil Society and Political Protest (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Comparative Politics, World Development, Party Politics, Journal of Politics, Latin American Research Review, and Studies in Comparative International Development.

Sofia Donoso holds an MPhil and a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Oxford. She is an assistant professor at the Universidad de Chile and a research fellow at the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES). She is coeditor with Marisa von Bülow of Social Movements in Chile: Organization, Trajectories and Political Consequences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Her research has been published in the Journal of Latin American Studies, in Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, as well as in several book chapters in edited volumes.

Ted Goertzel is professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University. He is author of Brazil’s Lula: The Most Popular Politician on Earth (BrownWalker Press, 2011), Fernando Henrique Cardoso: Reinventing Democracy in Brazil (Lynne Rienner, 1999), and Turncoats and True Believers (Prometheus, 1992). He is coauthor with Guy Burton of Presidential Leadership in the Americas since Independence (Lexington, 2016) and coauthor with Ben Goertzel of The End of the Beginning: Life, Society and Economy on the Brink of the Singularity (Humanity Plus, 2015).

Paul Kingston is professor of political science and director of the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Kingston is interested in the politics of power that underpin the dynamics of development. He is the author of Reproducing Sectarianism: Advocacy Networks and the Politics of Civil Society in Postwar Lebanon (SUNY Press, 2013) and of Debating Development: Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East: 1945–1958 (Cambridge University Press, 1996). He is coeditor with Ian Spears of States within States: Incipient Political Entities in the Post–Cold War Era (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Kingston is also the author of numerous articles and book chapters on the politics of the Middle East.

Jennifer M. Larson is associate professor of political science at Vanderbilt University. Her research is on social networks, ranging from sets of interactions in online social media to fully offline personal connections in word-of-mouth communication networks. She is coauthor with Terry Clark, Joshua Potter, John Mordeson, and Mark Wierman of Applying Fuzzy Mathematics to Formal Models in Comparative Politics (Springer, 2008). Larson’s work has appeared in numerous journals, such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, World Politics, Journal of Peace Research, among others.

Laura Macdonald is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. She is the author of Supporting Civil Society: The Political Impact of NGO Assistance to Central America (Macmillan Press and St. Martin’s Press, 1997) and coauthor with Jane Bayes, Patricia Begne, Laura Gonzalez, Lois Harder, and Mary Hawkesworth of Women, Democracy, and Globalization in North America: A Comparative Study (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). She is coeditor with Jeffrey Ayres of North America in Question: Regional Integration in an Era of Economic Turbulence (University of Toronto Press, 2012) and Contentious Politics in North America: National Protest and Transnational Collaboration under Continental Integration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Macdonald is also coeditor with Arne Ruckert of Post-Neoliberalism in the Americas: Beyond the Washington Consensus? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Roberta Rice is associate professor of Indigenous politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on Indigenous politics in Latin America. She is the author of The New Politics of Protest: Indigenous Mobilization in Latin America’s Neoliberal Era (University of Arizona Press, 2012), which was nominated for the 2014 prize in comparative politics by the Canadian Political Science Association. She is the coeditor with Gordana Yovanovich of Re-Imagining Community and Civil Society in Latin America and the Caribbean (Routledge, 2016). Her work has appeared in Bolivian Studies Journal, Comparative Political Studies, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Latin American Research Review, and Party Politics. She is also the author of several chapters on Latin American politics in The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America (University of Toronto Press, 2011). Her research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Eduardo Silva holds the Friezo Family Foundation Chair in Political Science and is professor of political science and a research associate of the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research at Tulane University. He is the author of Challenging Neoliberalism in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and The State and Capital in Chile (Westview, 1996). Silva is editor of Transnational Activism and National Movements in Latin America: Bridging the Divide (Routledge, 2013). He is coeditor with Francisco Durand of Organized Business, Economic Change, and Democracy in Latin America (North-South Center Press, 1998) and with Paul W. Drake of Elections and Democratization in Latin America, 1980–95 (University of California San Diego Press, 1986). Silva has published extensively in journals and edited volumes on social mobilization, environmental politics, and business-state relations.

Erica S. Simmons is an associate professor of political science and international studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of Meaningful Resistance: Market Reforms and the Roots of Social Protest in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2016). She is the author of numerous articles on contentious politics and qualitative methods in such journals as PS: Political Science and Politics, World Politics, Comparative Politics, Theory and Society, Qualitative and Multi-Method Research and Comparative Political Studies.

Nicolás M. Somma is an associate professor of sociology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a research fellow at the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies. His areas of expertise include social movement theory and political sociology. His research has appeared in Sociological Quarterly, Sociological Perspectives, Latin American Politics and Society, Party Politics, Journal of Historical Sociology, and Acta Sociologica, among others.