Richard Snyder is Professor of Political Science at Brown University, where he previously served as Director of the Center for Latin American Studies (2010-16) as well as Director of the Political Economy of Development Program at the Watson Institute for International Affairs. Snyder’s research and teaching focus on comparative politics, Latin American politics, comparative political economy, and qualitative and mixed methodologies. His work also sets US politics in comparative perspective, both through teaching and research on “Inequality and Democracy in Urban America,” as well as through research on subnational policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, Mexico and the United States. He is currently carrying out a cross-national and subnational comparative study of the crucial role played by extractive industries, especially lithium mining in South America, in the ongoing global transition to sustainable energy sources. His books include Politics after Neoliberalism: Reregulation in Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Passion, Craft and Method in Comparative Politics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, with Gerardo L. Munck), named “one of the best books published in 2007” by Foreign Policy, and Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2019, with Agustina Giraudy and Eduardo Moncada). He has published dozens of chapters and articles in journals including British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Democracy, Publius, Studies in Comparative International Development, and World Politics. Internationally, Snyder’s research has been translated into Chinese, French, Korean, Persian and Spanish and published in Argentina, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Iran, Mexico, Peru, South Korea, and Spain.
Agustina Giraudy, Eduardo Moncada and Richard Snyder.
"El análisis subnacional: Aportes teóricos y metodológicos a la política comparada [Subnational Analysis: Theoretical and Methodological Contributions to Comparative Politics]." Revista de Ciencia Política, vol. 41, no. 1, 2021, pp. 1-34.
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Lucas I. Gonzalez and Richard Snyder.
"Modes of Lithium Extraction in Argentina: Mining Politics in Catamarca, Jujuy and Salta." Natural Resources and Policy Choices in Latin America, edited by Giovanna França, Danilo Freire and Umberto Mignozzetti, Berlin, Germany, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2021, pp. 211-233.
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Cyril Bennouna, Agustina Giraudy, Eduardo Moncada, Eva Rios, Richard Snyder and Paul Testa. "Pandemic Policymaking in Presidential Federations: Explaining Subnational Responses to Covid-19 in Brazil, Mexico and the United States." Publius: The Journal of Federalism, vol. 51, no. 4, 2021, pp. 570-600. |
Paul Testa, Richard Snyder, Eva Rios, Eduardo Moncada, Agustina Giraudy and Cyril Bennouna. "Who Stays at Home? The Politics of Social Distancing in Brazil, Mexico and the United States during the Covid-19 Pandemic." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, vol. 46, no. 6, 2021, pp. 929-958. |
Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder.
"Comparative Politics at a Crossroad: Problems, Opportunities and Perspectives from the North and South." Politica y Gobierno, 2019.
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Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics. edited by Agustina Giraudy, Eduardo Moncada and Richard Snyder, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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Heller, Patrick, Rueschemeyer, Dietrich, Snyder, Richard. "Dependency and Development in a Globalized World: Looking Back and Forward." Studies in Comparative International Development, vol. 44, no. 4, 2009, pp. 287-295. |
Snyder, Richard, Duran-Martinez, Angelica. "Does illegality breed violence? Drug trafficking and state-sponsored protection rackets." Crime Law Soc Change, vol. 52, no. 3, 2009, pp. 253-273. |
Richard Snyder and Angelica Duran-Martinez. "Drugs, Violence, and State-Sponsored Protection Rackets in Mexico and Colombia." Colombia Internacional, 2009. |
Munck, G. L., Snyder, R. "Debating the Direction of Comparative Politics: An Analysis of Leading Journals." Comparative Political Studies, vol. 40, no. 1, 2007, pp. 5-31. |
Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder.
Passion, Craft and Method in Comparative Politics. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
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Munck, G. L., Snyder, R. "Visions of Comparative Politics: A Reply to Mahoney and Wibbels." Comparative Political Studies, vol. 40, no. 1, 2007, pp. 45-47. |
Munck, Gerardo L., Snyder, Richard. "Who Publishes in Comparative Politics? Studying the World from the United States." PS: Political Science & Politics, vol. 40, no. 02, 2007, pp. 339. |
Snyder, R. "Does Lootable Wealth Breed Disorder?: A Political Economy of Extraction Framework." Comparative Political Studies, vol. 39, no. 8, 2006, pp. 943-968. |
Snyder, Richard. "Retour sur les travaux de Juan Linz et leur réception. Extrait de l'entretien avec Juan J. Linz." Revue internationale de politique comparée, vol. 13, no. 1, 2006, pp. 129. |
Snyder, R. "Diamonds, Blood, and Taxes: A Revenue-Centered Framework for Explaining Political Order." Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 49, no. 4, 2005, pp. 563-597. |
Richard Snyder and David Samuels. "Devaluing the Vote in Latin America." Journal of Democracy, 2001. |
Richard Snyder.
Politics after Neoliberalism. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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"Scaling Down: The Subnational Comparative Method." Studies in Comparative International Development, 2001. |
David Samuels and Richard Snyder. "The Value of a Vote: Malapportionment in Comparative Perspective." British Journal of Political Science, 2001. |
"After Neoliberalism: The Politics of Reregulation in Mexico." World Politics, 1999. |
James Mahoney and Richard Snyder. "Rethinking Agency and Structure in the Study of Regime Change." studies in comparative international develo, 1999. |
Richard Snyder and James Mahoney. "The Missing Variable: Institutions and the Study of Regime Change." Comparative Politics, 1999. |
"Explaining Transitions from Neopatrimonial Dictatorships." Comparative Politics, 1992. |
“Epilogo: La política comparada en la encrucijada: Problemas, oportunidades y perspectivas desde el norte y el sur,” (with Gerardo L. Munck), Forthcoming in Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder, Pasión, oficio y método en la política comparada. Mexico City: CIDE, forthcoming.
Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics (coedited with Agustina Giraudy and Eduardo Moncada) New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, June 2019.
“Empirical and Theoretical Frontiers of Subnational Research in Comparative Politics” (with Agustina Giraudy and Eduardo Moncada), in Agustina Giraudy, Eduardo Moncada and Richard Snyder, eds., Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
“Subnational Research in Comparative Politics: Substantive, Theoretical, and Methodological Contributions” (with Agustina Giraudy and Eduardo Moncada), in Agustina Giraudy, Eduardo Moncada and Richard Snyder, eds., Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
“La política comparada en la encrucijada: Problemas, oportunidades y perspectivas desde el norte y el sur,” Política y Gobierno 26:1 (2019): 139-158.
“Who Sets the Intellectual Agenda? Foreign Funding and Social Science in Peru” (with Kelly Bay and Cecilia Perla) Pp. 99-118 in Martín Tanaka and Eduardo Dargent, eds. ¿Qué implica hacer ciencia política desde el sur y desde el norte? (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Escuela de Gobierno y Políticas Públicas, 2015).
“Gifts from Juan Linz,” in H. E. Chehabi, ed., Juan Linz: Scholar, Teacher, Friend (Cambridge, MA: Tŷ Aur Press, 2014).
“Juan J. Linz: Regímenes Políticos, Democracia y la Búsqueda del Conocimiento,” in José Ramón Montero and Thomas Jeffrey Miley, eds. Juan J. Linz: Obras Escogidas 7, Historia y sociedad en España (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2013).
“Pasión, oficio y método en la Ciencia Política,” Discurso de apertura del III Congreso Nacional de Ciencia Política de la Asociación Colombiana de Ciencia Política (ACCPOL), Trans-Pasando Fronteras (Colombia) 6 (2014): 25-33.
“Drugs, Violence, and State-Sponsored Protection Rackets in Mexico and Colombia,” (with Angelica Duran-Martinez), Colombia Internacional 70 (July-December 2009): 61-91.
“Does Illegality Breed Violence? Drug Trafficking and State-Sponsored Protection Rackets” (with Angelica Duran-Martinez) Crime, Law, and Social Change 52 (September 2009): 253-73.
“Dependency and Development in a Globalized World: Looking Back and Forward” (with Patrick Heller and Dietrich Rueschemeyer), Studies in Comparative International Development 44:4 (December 2009): 287-295.
Dependency and Development in a Globalized World (with Patrick Heller and DietrichRueschemeyer), Special Issue of Studies in Comparative International Development 44:4 (December 2009).
“Política comparada y América Latina: pensando sobre el futuro” (with Gerardo L. Munck), Estudios de Política y Sociedad, 1:1 (January-April, 2008).
Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics (with Gerardo L. Munck) (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).
"Debating the Direction of Comparative Politics: An Analysis of Leading Journals," (with Gerardo L. Munck), Comparative Political Studies 40:1 (January 2007): 5-31.
"Who Publishes in Comparative Politics? Studying the World from the United States?" (with Gerardo L. Munck), PS: Political Science & Politics (April 2007): 339-346.
"Visions of Comparative Politics: A Reply to Mahoney and Wibbles" (with Gerardo L. Munck) Comparative Political Studies, 40:1 (January 2007): 45-47.
"Beyond Electoral Authoritarianism: The Spectrum of Non-Democratic Regimes" in Andreas Schedler, ed. Electoral Authoritarianism: The Dynamics of Unfree Competition (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006).
"Does Lootable Wealth Breed Disorder? A Political Economy of Extraction Framework," Comparative Political Studies, 39:8(October 2006): 943-968.
"Diamonds, Blood, and Taxes: A Revenue-Centered Framework for Explaining Political Order," (with Ravi Bhavnani), Journal of Conflict Resolution 49:4 (August 2005): 563-597.
"El pasado, presente y futuro de la política comparada: un simposio" (with Gerardo L. Munck) Política y Gobierno (Mexico), 12:1 (2005): 127-156.
"Creative Hypothesis Generating in Comparative Research," Qualitative Methods: Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Qualitative Methods (Fall 2005).
"What Has Comparative Politics Accomplished?" (with Gerardo L. Munck) APSA-CP. Newsletter of the APSA Organized Section in Comparative Politics Vol. 15, Nº 2 (Summer 2004): 26-31.
"Legislative Malapportionment in Latin America: Historical and Comparative Perspectives," (with David Samuels), in Edward L. Gibson, ed. Federalism and Democracy in Latin America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).
"The Value of a Vote: Malapportionment in Comparative Perspective" (with David Samuels), British Journal of Political Science, 31:4 (October 2001): 651-71.[Spanish translation published in, Ernesto Calvo and Juan Manuel Abal M., eds. El Federalismo Electoral Argentino: Sobre-representación, Reforma Política y Gobierno Dividido en la Argentina (Buenos Aires: Editorial Universidad de Buenos Aires (EUDEBA), 2001).]
"Scaling Down: The Subnational Comparative Method," Studies in Comparative International Development, 36:1 (Spring 2001): 93-110.
"Devaluing the Vote in Latin America" (with David Samuels), Journal of Democracy 12 (January 2001): 146-59.
Politics after Neoliberalism: Reregulation in Mexico (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, 2001).[Paperback edition, 2006]
"Integrative Strategies for the Study of Regime Change" (with James Mahoney), in Stein Ugelvik Larsen, ed. The Challenges of Theories on Democracy (Boulder: Social Science Monographs,2000).
Strategies for Resource Management , Production, and Marketing in Rural Mexico (Guadalupe Rodríguez Gómez and Snyder, eds.) (La Jolla, CA: The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2000).
"Campesino Strategies in Mexico's New Rural Economy," in Guadalupe Rodríguez Gómez and Richard Snyder, eds. Strategies for Production, Marketing, and Resource Management in Rural Mexico (La Jolla, CA: The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2000).
"Reconstructing Institutions for Market Governance: Participatory Policy Regimes in Mexico's Coffee Sector," in Richard Snyder, ed. Institutional Adaptation and Innovation in Rural Mexico (La Jolla, CA: The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1999).
"After the State Withdraws: Neoliberalism and Subnational Authoritarian Regimes in Mexico," in Wayne A. Cornelius, Todd A. Eisenstadt, and Jane Hindley, eds. Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico. (La Jolla, CA: The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1999).
Institutional Adaptation and Innovation in Rural Mexico, ed. (La Jolla, CA: The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1999).
"The Missing Variable: Institutions and the Study of Regime Change" (with James Mahoney),Comparative Politics 32:1 (October 1999): 103-22.
"Rethinking Agency and Structure in the Study of Regime Change" (with James Mahoney), Studies in Comparative International Development 34:2 (Summer 1999): 3-32.
"After Neoliberalism: The Politics of Reregulation in Mexico," World Politics 51:2 (January 1999): 173-204.
"Patterns of Institutional Change in Rural Mexico," in Richard Snyder, ed. Institutional Adaptation and Innovation in Rural Mexico (La Jolla, CA: The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1999).
"The Changing Role of the Ejido," in Richard Snyder and Gabriel Torres, eds. The Future Role of the Ejido in Rural Mexico (La Jolla, CA: The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1998).
The Future Role of the Ejido in Rural Mexico (Snyder and Gabriel Torres, eds.) (La Jolla, CA: The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1998).
"Paths out of Sultanistic Regimes: Combining Structural and Voluntarist Perspectives," in H.E. Chehabi and Juan J. Linz, eds., Sultanistic Regimes (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). [Persian translation published in 2001; Spanish translation published in Araucaria: Revista Iberoamerican de Filosofía, Política y Humanidades 4:7 (2002)].
"Explaining Transitions from NeopatrimonialDictatorships," Comparative Politics 24:4 (July 1992): 379-99. [Reprinted in Rosemary O'Kane, ed. Revolutions: Critical Concepts in Political Science (London: Routledge, 1999).]
Year | Degree | Institution |
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1997 | PhD | University of California, Berkeley |
1991 | MA | University of California, Berkeley |
1989 | BA | Harvard University |
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Heller, Patrick | Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Sociology |
Singh, Prerna | Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences |
Testa, Paul | Assistant Professor of Political Science |
POLS 1210 - Latin American Politics |
POLS 1240 - Politics, Markets and States in Developing Countries |
POLS 1821V - Democracy and Inequality in American Cities |
POLS 2090D - Models of Excellence in Comparative Research: Classic Works and the Scholars Who Produced Them |
POLS 2400 - Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research |