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Peter Kingstone

Associate Professor, and

Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies 

Latin American Politics, Comparative Politics, and Political Economy


Peter Kingstone received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1994. His main research interests include the politics of economic reform, business politics, and democratization. He is currently at work on a study of privatization and pension reform in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Venezuela. 
Main Publications:

    • Crafting Coalitions for Reform: Business Preferences, Political Institutions and Neoliberal reform in Brazil, Penn State University Press, 1999.
    • Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions and Processes. Co-editor with Timothy J. Power (Florida International University). University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
    • "Privatizing Telebras: Brazilian Political Institutions and Policy Performance."  Comparative Politics, October 2003.
    • "Why Free Trade "Losers" Support Free Trade: Industrialists and the Surprising Politics of Trade Reform in
      • Brazil." Comparative Political Studies, November 2001. 
    • “Democratic Governance and the Dilemma of Social Security Reform in Brazil.”  In Latin American Democracies in the New Global Economy.  Ana Margheritis, ed.  Miami: North-South Center Press.  December, 2003.
    • "Elites, Democracy and Market Reform in Latin America."  Latin American Politics and Society, Fall 2001. 
    • "Corporatism, Neoliberalism and the failure of Big Business Mobilization: The case if IEDI in Brazil." The Journal of Interamerica Studies and World Affairs, Winter, 1998-1999.