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Ben Ross Schneider is the Ford International Professor of Political Science and Faculty Director of the MIT-Chile and MIT-Peru Programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined MIT in 2008 after teaching at Princeton University and Northwestern University. His research specializes in comparative politics and political economy, focusing particularly on Latin American politics. Schneider's influential works include 'Reinventing Leviathan: Politics Administrative Reform in Developing Countries' (2003), 'Business Politics in 20th Century Latin America' (2004), 'Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America: Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development' (2013), 'Designing Industrial Policy in Latin America: Business-Government Relations and New Developmentalism' (2015), and 'New Order, New Progress: Democracy and Development in Brazil' (2016). His scholarly publications cover a range of topics, including democratization, technocracy, education politics, the developmental state, business groups, and industrial policy.