Winter/Spring 2012 Bacardi Family Eminent Scholar
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Joe Foweraker392 Grinter Hall |
Research Interests
Social mobilization, citizenship, the quality of democratic government, and the nature of the democratic systems of Latin America.
Geographic Expertise
Comparative.
Curriculum Vitae
Background
Joe Foweraker is Professor of Latin American Politics at the University of Oxford, a Professorial Fellow of St. Antony’s College, and has just stepped down as Head of Oxford’s School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies. Previously he was Professor of Government at the University of Essex and served as the Executive Director of the European Consortium for Political Research from 2000-2003. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Pará (Brazil), Gainesville (Florida), and Boulder (Colorado); and a visiting research fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington DC) and the Center for US-Mexican Studies (UC San Diego).
He has carried out extensive fieldwork in Brazil, Spain and Mexico, and has published monographs on these three countries with Cambridge University Press (in 1981, 1989 and 1993). He has also published widely on social mobilization and citizenship rights in Latin America, including books with Pluto Press (1995) and Oxford University Press (1997). More recently he has pursued comparative research on democracy, publishing a series of articles on the quality of democratic government, editing an Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought (Routledge 2001), and co-authoring a textbook on Governing Latin America (Polity 2003). His current research applies classical democratic theory to examine the nature of the contemporary democratic systems of Latin America.
