Books written by Ben Ross Schneider
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New Order and Progress: Development and Democracy in Brazil
Wagner Freire, “An Overview on Campos Basin,” Paper Presented to the Annual Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, TX, May 2–5, 1988, OTC 5807; M. I. Assayag, G. Castro, K. Minami, and S. Assayag, “Campos Basin: A Real Scale Lab for ...
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Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin America
Petras , James , and Thomas Cook . 1972. “ Componentes de la acción política : El ejecutivo industrial argentino . ” Desarrollo Económico 12 ( July - September ) : 387-96 . Pfeifer , Alberto , and Amâncio Jorge de Oliveira . 2000.
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Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America: Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development
Although difficult to measure precisely, estimates of intrafirm trade between Latin America and the United States vary between one-third and two-thirds (Zeile 1997; Petras and Veltmeyer 1999).II In Brazil in 2000, 3 8 percent of total ...
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Politics within the State: Elite Bureaucrats and Industrial Policy in Authoritarian Brazil
Ben Ross Schneider looks behind this façade to explain how the Brazilian bureaucracy contributes to industrialization by analyzing career patterns and appointments which structure incentives and power more than formal organizations or ...
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Index to The London Stage, 1660-1800
This computerized index to the eleven-volume The London Stage, 1660?1800 (Southern Illinois University Press, 1960?68), makes accessible in one volume all the information about the plays, persons, and places as...
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Reinventing Leviathan: The Politics of Administrative Reform in Developing Countries
Scholars and development practitioners agree that developing countries urgently need cohesive administrative reforms to consolidate new market economies, promote sustainable development, and improve social welfare. Reinventing Leviathan provides extensive comparative...
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Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America
This book presents a model based on the varieties of capitalism literature that accomplished two things: (1) it describes the state and unique characteristics of Latin American capitalism in the 1990s and 2000s -- what the author called ...
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New Order and Progress: Development and Democracy in Brazil
On the history of contractors in the global offshore oil industry, see Joseph A. Pratt, Tyler Priest, and Christopher Castaneda, Offshore Pioneers: Brown & Root and the History of Offshore Oil and Gas (Houston: Gulf Publishing, ...
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Innovation in Brazil: Advancing Development in the 21st Century
In this book, the editors unite a diverse array of empirical contributions around a few key themes, including public policies, institutions and innovation ecosystems, and firms and industries, that collectively make the case for a new, ...
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Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin America
Ben Schneider's comparative historical analysis of the incorporation of business into politics in Latin America examines business organization and political activity over the last century in five of the largest and most developed countries ...