Faculty and Researchers Ben Ross Schneider Faculty Director, MIT-Chile Program, MIT-Peru Program Ford International Professor of Political Science
Email 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
BookRoutes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America Ben Ross Schneider Oxford University Press 2024
PaperCummings, 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
PaperApaydin, 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
PaperBruns, 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
PaperRoss 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
PaperDoner, 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
PaperPuente, 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
BookDesigning Industrial Policy in Latin America: Business-State Relations and the New Developmentalism Ben Ross Schneider Palgrave 2015
BookHierarchical Capitalism in Latin America: Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development Ben Ross Schneider Cambridge University Press 2013
CommentaryBen 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
NewsTrying 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