Richard Snyder is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University. He previously taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has been a visiting fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego. His research has been supported by numerous institutions, including the National Science Foundation, the Institute of International Education, and the Institute for the Study of World Politics. He is the editor of three volumes on the political economy of rural Mexico, including Institutional Adaptation and Innovation in Rural Mexico. His articles have appeared in such journals as World Politics, Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, and the British Journal of Political Science.

• Part I. The Framework and Comparative Analysis: 1. Rethinking the consequences of Neoliberalism; 2. From deregulation to regulation in the Mexican coffee sector; Part II. The Cases: 3. Remaking corporatism from below: a participatory policy framework in Oaxaca; 4. When corporatism and democracy collide: an exclusionary policy framework in Guerrero; 5. Peasants and oligarchs: stalemate and transition to a participatory policy framework in Chiapas; 6. Oligarchs as the dominant force: an exclusionary policy framework in Puebla; Part III. The Conclusion: 7. After neoliberalism: what next?

"Numerous studies have been conducted on the consequences of the economic deregulation, but ew possess the analytical clarity, methodological rigor, and theoretical sophistication of Richard Synder's Politics after Neoliberalism. American Journal of Sociology