BENJAMIN GOLDFRANK
Curriculum Vitae
September 2006

Dept. of Political Science
University of New Mexico                                                                   
Albuquerque, NM 87131                                                                                      
(505) 277-7738                                                                  
goldfran@unm.edu

EDUCATION
Ph.D.   University of California, Berkeley.  Political Science.  December 2002.
            Fields:  Comparative Politics, Latin America, Methodology. 
M.A.    University of California, Berkeley.  Political Science.  May 1996.
B.A.     Harvard University.  Social Studies.  Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. Certificate in Latin American Studies.  June 1993.

THESIS TITLES
Ph.D.   Urban Experiments in Citizen Participation:  Deepening Democracy in Latin America.  (Advisors:  Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier, co-chairs;                     Peter Evans, and Chris Ansell)
M.A.    Fighting for a Just Cause:  The Church, the State, and Human Rights in the Southern Cone.  (Reviewers:  David Collier, David Leonard, and Michael                 Rogin)
B.A.     Honors Thesis.  Ownership or Partnership?:  The Chilean Communist Party in the Shantytowns of Santiago       (Advisor:  Jeanne Kinney)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Assistant Professor.  January 2003 – present.  University of New Mexico, Department of Political Science, Albuquerque, NM.
Instructor.  Summer 2002.  University of California, Berkeley, Department of Political Science.
Editorial Assistant,  January 2000 – January 2002.  Studies in Comparative International Development, University of California, Berkeley.
 
PUBLICATIONS
Books co-edited:
Daniel Chavez and Benjamin Goldfrank, editors, The Left in the City:  Participatory Local Governments in Latin America.  London: Latin American Bureau         and Transnational Institute, 2004.
Published in Spanish as La izquierda en la ciudad: Participación en los gobiernos locales de América Latina, Barcelona, Spain:  Icaria and Transnational             Institute, 2004.
Revised edition published in Italian, with Giovanni Allegretti, as La sinistra e le città: Partecipazione nei governi locali dell'America Latina, Firenze, Italy:              Caminito Editrice and Transnational Institute, 2005.
   
Articles:
“The Politics of Deepening Local Democracy: Decentralization, Party Institutionalization, and Participation,” Comparative Politics (forthcoming; accepted March     2006). 
“Los procesos de ‘presupuesto participativo’ en América Latina: Éxito, fracaso y cambio” (Participatory Budgeting in Latin America:  Success, Failure, and                 Change), Revista de Ciencia Política (Political Science Journal), Political Science Institute, Catholic University of Chile (forthcoming December 2006, vol. 26,     n. 2).
“Competitive Institution Building: The PT and Participatory Budgeting in Rio Grande do Sul,” co-authored with Aaron Schneider, Latin American Politics and         Society, 48:3 (Fall 2006).
      Published in Portuguese as, “Construindo Instituições Competitivas:  O PT e o Orçamento Participativo no Rio Grande do Sul,” in Desenho Institucional e         Participação Politica: Experiências no Brasil Contemporâneo, edited by Catia Lubambo, Denilson Coêlho, and Marcus Melo. Rio de Janeiro:  Vozes,             2005.
      Published in Spanish as, “Construcción institucional competitiva: el PT y el Presupuesto Participativo de Rio Grande do Sul,” in Diseño institucional y                 participación política:  Experiencias en el Brasil contemporáneo, edited by Lubambo, Coêlho, and Melo.  Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2006.
“The Fragile Flower of Local Democracy:  A Case Study of Decentralization/Participation in Montevideo,” Politics & Society, 30:1 (March 2002).
 
Book Chapters:
“Lessons from Latin American Experience in Participatory Budgeting,” in Participatory Budgeting, edited by Anwar Shah.  Washington, DC: World Bank                 Institute, Public Sector Governance and Accountability Series, forthcoming Fall 2006.
“The Difficulties of Deepening Democracy:  La Causa R Meets Caracas the Horrible,” in The Left in the City, edited by Chavez and Goldfrank, London: Latin         American Bureau and Transnational Institute, 2004.  (Revised and translated editions in Spanish and Italian.)
“Conclusion:  The End of Politics or a New Beginning for the Left?” in The Left in the City, edited by Chavez and Goldfrank, London: Latin American Bureau and     Transnational Institute, 2004.  (Revised and translated editions in Spanish and Italian.)
“Making Participation Work in Porto Alegre,” in Radicals in Power:  The Workers’ Party and Experiments with Urban Democracy in Brazil, edited by             Gianpaolo Baiocchi. London and New York:  Zed Books, 2003.
“Restraining the Revolution or Deepening Democracy?  The Workers’ Party in Rio Grande do Sul,” co-authored with Aaron Schneider, in Radicals in Power,         edited by Baiocchi. London and New York:  Zed Books, 2003.
“Quem Vai Participar do OP Quando Todas as Ruas Estiveram Pavimentadas?” (Who Will Participate in the Participatory Budget Process When All the Streets         are Paved?), in Construindo um novo mundo: Avaliação da experiência do Orçamento Participativo em Porto Alegre – Brasil  (Building a new world:          Evaluation of the Participatory Budgeting Experience in Porto Alegre, Brazil), João Verle and Luciano Brunet, editors.  Porto Alegre:  Editora Guayí, 2002.              Translated editions in Spanish, French, and English.
 
Other Writings:
Review of David Shirk, Mexico’s New Politics:  The PAN  and Democratic Change, in Comparative Political Studies, 38:7 (September 2005).
Review of William Nylen, Participatory Democracy versus Elitist Democracy:  Lessons from Brazil, in Latin American Politics and Society, 47:1 (Spring 2005).
"Budgets and Ballots in Brazil: Participatory Budgeting from the City to the State,” co-authored with Aaron Schneider, Institute of Development Studies Working         Paper Series  #149. Brighton:  IDS, January 2002.
 
WORKS UNDER REVIEW
“The Church, the State, and Human Rights in Latin America,” co-authored with Nick Rowell, article manuscript under review.
“From Good Government to Politics as Usual:  How the Workers’ Party (PT) Lost its Way,” co-authored with Brian Wampler, article manuscript under review.
“Neoliberalism and the Left:  National Challenges, Local Responses, and Global Alternatives,” chapter manuscript for Beyond Neoliberalism? Patterns,                     Responses, and New Directions in Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by John Burdick, Phillip Oxhorn, and Kenneth Roberts.  Duke University Press. 
Review of Social Movements and State Power: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador by James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer (Pluto Press, 2005), for                       Perspectives on Politics.
 
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Urban Experiments in Citizen Participation:  Deepening Democracy in Latin America, book manuscript to be submitted Fall 2006.
 
“What’s Left in the City?  What’s Right in the Hinterland?  Urban Political Economy in Contemporary Latin America,” co-authored with Andrew Schrank, article manuscript presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia.
 
“Promises and Realities of Scaling Up Participatory Democracy,” paper to be presented at the conference, Assessing Latin America’s “Left Turn”: Political Diversity and the Search for Development Alternatives, Cornell University, December 1-2, 2006.
 
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCES
“The Church, the State, and Human Rights in Latin America,” co-authored with Nick Rowell, American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 2006.
 
“What’s Left in the City, What’s Right in the Hinterland: Urban Political Economy in Contemporary Latin America,” co-authored with Andrew Schrank, American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 2006.
 
“Lessons from Latin American Experience in Participatory Budgeting,” Latin American Studies Association Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2006.
 
“The Church, the State, and Human Rights in Latin America,” co-authored with Nick Rowell, Southwest Council on Latin American Studies Conference in Albuquerque, March 2006. 
 
“The Politics of Deepening Local Democracy: Decentralization, Party Institutionalization, and Participation,” American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, September 2005.
 
“The Politics of Deepening Local Democracy: Decentralization, Party Institutionalization, and Participation,” Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, April 2005.
 
“Lessons from The Left in the City:  The End of Politics or a New Beginning for the Left?” Latin American Studies Association Conference, Las Vegas, October 2004.
 
“The PT and Participatory Budgeting:  Searching for Alternatives to Neo-liberalism in Brazil,” co-authored with Aaron Schneider, Latin American Studies Association Conference, Dallas, March 2003.
           
“Participatory Budgeting, the PT, and an Alternative to Neo-liberalism in Brazil,” co-authored with Aaron Schneider, American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Boston, August 2002.
 
"Decentralization and Participation:  The Keys to Deepening Democracy?" Latin American Studies Association Conference, Washington DC, September 2001.
 
“Deepening Democracy Through Citizen Participation? A Comparative Analysis of Three Cities,” American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 2001.
 
“Budgets and Ballots in Brazil: Participatory Budgeting from the City to the State,” co-authored with Aaron Schneider, American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 2001.
           
“The Fragile Flower of Local Democracy:  A Case Study of Decentralization/Participation in Montevideo,” Western Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, March 2001.
 
INVITED PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
“El presupuesto participativo en perspectiva comparada” (Participatory Budgeting in Comparative Perspective), Foro Presidencial Sobre Presupuesto Participativo (Presidential Forum on Participatory Budgeting), Tegucigalpa, Honduras, September 2006.  By invitation of the Secretary of the Presidency, Ministerial Advisor of Finance, and the Minister of Governance and Justice.
 
“From the OP to the Mensalão:  The Rise and Possible Demise of the Workers’ Party,” Twenty Years of Re-Democratization in Brazil:  Achievements, Failures, and Promises, Discussion Panel, Brazil Studies Group and Center for Latin American Studies, University of Arizona, November 2005.
 
“Neoliberalism and the Left:  National Challenges, Local Responses, and Global Alternatives,” Beyond Neoliberalism? Patterns, Responses, and New Directions in Latin America and the Caribbean, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, April 2005.
 
“Conditions for Empowered Participatory Governance:  Comparing Caracas and Porto Alegre,” Empowered Participatory Governance Seminar, The Havens Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 2-3, 2003.
 
“Quem Vai Participar do OP Quando Todas as Ruas Estiveram Pavimentadas?” (Who Will Participate in the Participatory Budget Process When All the Streets are Paved?), O Orçamento Participativo no Olhar do Mundo (The Participatory Budget in the World’s View) Seminar, Porto Alegre, Brazil, May 31-June 2, 2001.
 
“The Difficulties of Deepening Democracy:  La Causa R Meets Caracas the Horrible,” background paper for the meeting, Beyond the Third Way – New Kinds of States, New Kinds of Parties, Transnational Institute, Córdoba, Spain, November 3-5, 2000.
 
OTHER INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Researching the Latin American Left,” Planning Meeting of the Madison Dialogue, parallel to the World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, January 26-31, 2005.
 
“Lessons for Lula?  The PT's Local Experiences in Comparative Perspective,” Lunch Seminar, Student Organization of Latin American Studies, Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico, February 21, 2003.
 
“El Caso de La Causa R en Caracas,” (The Case of the Radical Cause in Caracas), Cátedra de Participación Ciudadana (Citizen Participation Seminar), University of Córdoba, Spain, November 2, 2000.
 
ACADEMIC HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
·  College of Arts and Sciences Research Semester Award, University of New Mexico, Fall 2006.
·  Eugene Gallegos Lectureship, University of New Mexico, 2003, 2005.
·  Nominated for the American Political Science Association’s William Anderson Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the general field of federalism, intergovernmental relations, or state and local politics, 2003.
·  Political Science Department Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley, 1995-7, 1999-2001.
·  Fulbright Fellowship, for dissertation research in Brazil, 1998-9.
·  John L. Simpson Memorial Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley Institute of International Studies, for dissertation research in Brazil, Venezuela, and Uruguay, 1998-9 and 1999-2000.
·  Graduate Division Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley, for language study in Brazil, Summer 1997.
·  Social Science Research Grant, U.C. Berkeley, for pre-dissertation research in Brazil, Summer 1997.
·  Summa Cum Laude, Harvard University, 1993.
·  Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University, 1993.
 
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico, Spring 2003 – Present.
PS 356: Political Development in Latin America; PS 521 Research Seminar:  Social Movements and the Left in Latin America; PS 525 Pro-Seminar:  Political Development in Latin America; PS220: Comparative Politics; PS 299: Independent Study; PS 499: Graduate Independent Study; co-professor for Portuguese 414/514:  The Dictatorship and Post-Dictatorship Years in Brazil.
Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, Summer 2002. 
Latin American Politics.  Designed and taught undergraduate course
Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 1997–Spring 2002.
Introduction to Comparative Politics, Introduction to Political Science Methodology, Latin American Politics.
Graduate Student Instructor Training Program, GSI Teaching and Resource Center,
Graduate Division, U.C. Berkeley, certificate, 1997.
 
DOCTORAL AND MASTERS DISSERTATION COMMITTEES
Roberta Rice, Ph.D. 2006, “From Peasants to Politicians:  The Politicization of Ethnic Cleavages in Latin America.”
Matthew Ingram, Ph.D. expected 2008, “Disparate Justice: Unequal Rule(s) of Law and its Consequences for Citizenship in Latin America.”
Justin Delacour, Ph.D. expected 2009.
Bettina Ide, Ph.D. expected 2009.
Erin Hansbrough, MA in Latin American Studies and MS in Community and Regional Planning expected 2006, "Paradigms of Participation: Citizen Participation in Curitiba aand Porto Alegre, Brazil."
Gulliver Scott, MA in Latin American Studies and MS in Community and Regional Planning expected 2007, “Student Politics in Chile.”
 
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
      American Political Science Association.
            Sections on Comparative Politics and Qualitative Methods.
      Latin American Studies Association.
 
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
·  Reviewer for Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Journal of Politics, Latin American Research Review (twice), Studies in Comparative International Development, Political Power & Social Theory, Revista de Sociologia e Política (Brazil), Revista de Ciencia Política (Chile, twice), and Journal of World-Systems Research (Special Issue on Global Protests).
·  Reviewer for research grant application for CONICYT (National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research), Chile, July 2006.
·  Organizer and Chair of “Participatory Budgeting in Brazil and Beyond:  Diffusion, Stagnation, or Retreat?” panel at the Latin American Studies Association Congress, March 2006.
·  Discussant for “Social Movements and Democratization” panel at the Midwest Political Science Association conference, April 2005.
·  Discussant for "Balancing Domestic and International Pressures in the Pursuit of Prosperity: Popular Resistance to the Neoliberal Project in Latin America" panel at the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies conference, March 2004.
·  Chair of “Local Politics and the Left in Brazil and Chile” panel at the Latin American Studies Association conference, March 2003.
 
UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENT SERVICE
·  Member of the Latin American and Iberian Institute Grants and Awards Committee, since August 2004.
·  Member of the Political Science Department Search Committee, Comparative/Latin Americanist Position, August 2005 to January 2006.
·  Member of the Political Science Department Executive Committee, August 2004 to August 2005.
·  Member of the Latin American and Iberian Institute Operations Committee, August 2003 to August 2004.
·  Organized Latin American Politics Comprehensive Exam, Fall 2005, Spring 2006.
·  Reader for Comparative Politics Comprehensive Exam, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006.
·  Reader for Latin American Politics Comprehensive Exam, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006.
·  Judge for the Program for Research Opportunities for Undergraduates (PROFOUND) at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 19, 2004.
·  Faculty Advisor for UNM student group, The League of Pissed Off Voters, Fall 2003 – present.
 
LANGUAGES 
Spanish:            Fluent reading, speaking, and writing proficiency.  Three years college course-work, Harvard University.
Portuguese:       Fluent reading, speaking, and writing proficiency.  One year college course-work, University of California, Berkeley.  Certificate in Portuguese                                 Language study received August, 1997 from Federal University of Brazil at Fortaleza, Ceará.