{"id":35,"date":"2009-06-24T13:49:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T17:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/experts\/strom-thacker\/"},"modified":"2015-09-02T16:45:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T20:45:43","slug":"strom-thacker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/community\/strom-thacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Strom Thacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty Associate<br \/>\nAssociate Dean of the Faculty, Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences<br \/>\nProfessor, International Relations and Political Science,\u00a0Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:sthacker@bu.edu\">sthacker@bu.edu<\/a><br \/>\n617-353-7160<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<p>BA, Pomona College; MA, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Expertise<\/h3>\n<p>International and comparative political economy, governance, development, Latin American studies, Mexican political economy and politics<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/common\/images\/experts\/t-thacker.jpg\" alt=\"Strom Thacker\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Biography<\/h3>\n<p>Strom Thacker\u2019s 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\u00a0<i>Big Business, the State, and Free Trade: Constructing Coalitions in Mexico<\/i>\u00a0(2000),\u00a0<i>A Centripetal Theory of Democratic Governance<\/i>\u00a0(with John Gerring, 2008), and\u00a0<i>Democracy and Development: A Historical Perspective<\/i>\u00a0(with John Gerring, in process). He is also working on a project on the politics of human development. He has published articles in the\u00a0<i>American Political Science Review<\/i>, the\u00a0<i>British Journal of Political Science<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Business and Politics<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Comparative Political Studies, Global Public Health,\u00a0International Organization<\/i>, the\u00a0<i>Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs<\/i>, the<i>Journal of Politics<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Social Science &amp; Medicine<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>World Politics<\/i>. He has an ongoing interest in the politics of foreign aid and lending, and the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Thacker 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 Scholar in Political Science at MIT, Visiting Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University, a Susan Louise Dyer Peace Fellow at Stanford University\u2019s Hoover Institution, and a Fulbright Scholar. He has also received research grants funded by the World Bank, BU\u2019s SPRInG program, BU\u2019s Pardee Center, the Mellon Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, and the University of North Carolina. He taught at the Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico Aut\u00f3nomo de M\u00e9xico (ITAM) before his appointment to Boston University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthacker\">Strom Thacker\u2019s Personal Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty Associate Associate Dean of the Faculty, Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences Professor, International Relations and Political Science,\u00a0Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies sthacker@bu.edu 617-353-7160 Education BA, Pomona College; MA, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Expertise International and comparative political economy, governance, development, Latin American studies, Mexican political economy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2140,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":78,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22688,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/22688"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}