Faculty and Researchers

Ben Ross Schneider

Faculty Director, MIT-Chile Program, MIT-Peru Program

Ford International Professor of Political Science

brs@mit.edu

Website

https://polisci.mit.edu/people/ben-ross-schneider

Expertise

Capitalist development in Latin America

New forms of state capitalism

Industrial policy

State-owned enterprises

Publications

Book

Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America

Oxford University Press

2024

Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America

Paper

Cummings, Peter M. M, Alejandra Mizala, and Ben Ross Schneider. “Chile’s Inclusion Law: The Arduous Drive to Regulate an Unequal Education System, 2006-19.” Educational Review (Birmingham) 77, no. 3 (2025): 764–89.

July 2023

Paper

Apaydin, Fulya, Ben Ross Schneider, Marius R Busemeyer, and Geoffrey Wood. “On Merve Sancak’s Institutions, Skills, Production Regimes and the Near Periphery, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022.” Socio-Economic Review 21, no. 3 (2023): 1835–47.

July 2023

Paper

Bruns, Barbara, Ben Ross Schneider, and Jaime Saavedra. 2023. “The Politics of Transforming Education in Peru: 2007-2020”. University of Oxford. doi:10.25446/oxford.23686557.v1.

March 2023

Paper

Ross Schneider, Ben. “Teacher Unions, Political Machines, and the Thorny Politics of Education Reform in Latin America.” Politics & Society 50, no. 1 (2022): 84–116.

March 2022

Paper

Doner, Richard, and Ben Ross Schneider. “Technical Education in the Middle Income Trap: Building Coalitions for Skill Formation.” The Journal of Development Studies 56, no. 4 (2020): 680–97.

April 2020

Paper

Puente, Ignacio, and Ben Ross Schneider. 2020. “Business and Development: How Organization, Ownership and Networks Matter.” Review of International Political Economy 27 (6): 1354–77.

February 2020

Book

Designing Industrial Policy in Latin America: Business-State Relations and the New Developmentalism

Palgrave

2015

Designing Industrial Policy in Latin America: Business-State Relations and the New Developmentalism

Book

Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America: Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development

Cambridge University Press

2013

Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America: Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development

News

Commentary

Ben Ross Schneider discusses cuts to governmental agencies

Ben Ross Schneider, Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the MIT-Chile program, discussed the domestic and international implications of the Trump administration’s cuts to governmental agencies, including the Department of Education and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

April 03, 2025

Professor Ben Ross Schneider discusses cuts to the Department of Education and USAID

News

Trying to make the grade

Ben Ross Schneider’s new book examines why improving public education has been so difficult in Latin America. Schneider is the faculty director of the MIT-Chile Program and Ford International Professor of Political Science.

May 20, 2024