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Director of Latin American Studies Program; Associate Professor of International Relations. (BA, Pomona College; MA, PhD, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill)
Specialization: International and Comparative Political Economy, Governance, Development; Latin
American Studies; Mexican political economy and politics.
Professor Thacker’s research and teaching focus broadly on questions of political economy, governance and development, with a regional focus on Mexico and Latin America. His books include Big Business, the State, and Free Trade: Constructing Coalitions in Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2000), A Centripetal Theory of Democratic Governance (with John Gerring, Cambridge University Press, 2008), and Democracy and Development: A Historical Perspective (with John Gerring, in process). He is also working on a project on the politics of human development. He has published articles in the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, Business and Politics, Comparative Political Studies,International Organization, the Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, and World Politics. He also has an ongoing interest in the politics of foreign aid and lending, and the International Monetary Fund. He is a Faculty Affiliate of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and a Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University. He has been a Visiting Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University, a Susan Louise Dyer Peace Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and a Fulbright Scholar. He has also received research grants funded by the World Bank, BU’s SPRInG program, BU’s Pardee Center , the Mellon Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, and the University of North Carolina . He taught at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) before his appointment to Boston University.
Professor Thacker teaches the following courses:
International Political Economy (IR 390/PO 355)
North-South
Relations (IR 395/PO 352)
Political
Economy of Mexico and NAFTA (IR 575/PO 553)
Political
Economy of Latin America (IR 590/PO 550)
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