Teichman, Judith
Judith Teichman is Professor of Political Science and International Development at the University of Toronto and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the author of books and articles on politics and policymaking in Latin America, with a focus on Mexico, Argentina, and Chile. Her work on policy has dealt with economic and social policy, and with issues of poverty and distribution. She has also carried out research on the role of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in market reform and social policy in Latin America. More recent work has involved Latin American (Chile and Mexico) and Asian (South Korea and Indonesia) comparisons, with attention to the politics of inclusive development. She has also done work on the topic of inequality and violence in Mexico. She is currently working on a comparative study of twenty and twenty-first century Latin American populism.
Research Interests: Political Science, International Development, Poverty and Inequality, Economics Policymaking in Latin America, and Populism in Latin America
Listing Details
| Institution: | University of Toronto |
| Fields of Expertise: | Economic Policy and Financial Issues International Relations and Foreign Policy Populism Social Policy, Welfare and Labour Market |
| Research groups: | Democracy/Populism/Nationalism |
| Email: | judith.teichman@utoronto.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | The Politics of Inclusive Development, Policy, State Capacity, and Coalition Building, Palgrave MacMillan, 2016, 250 pp. Social Forces and States: Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico. Stanford University Press, 2012, 272 pp. Co-author: Kuresel Cevrede Sosyal Demokrasi. Ankara: Phoenix Yayinevi. Turkish Translation of Social Democracy in the Global Periphery with a new preface to the Turkish edition, 2012. "The Washington Consensus in Latin America." In Harry E. Vanden and Gary Prevost, eds. Oxford Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics, Oxford University Press, 2019. "Inequality in Twentieth Century Latin America: Path Dependence, Counter-movements, and Reactive Sequences." Social Science History. Vol 4, No. 1, 2019: 131-157. "The Role of the Middle Class in Distributional Outcomes: Chile and South Korea." Studies in Comparative International Development. Vol. 50, No. 1, 2015: 1-21. "The Politics of Immiserising Growth: Mexico in Comparative Perspective." In Ravi Kanbur, Richard Sandbrook, and Paul Shaffer, eds., Immiserizing Growth: When Growth Fails the Poor. Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 55-84 "Struggling with the Social Challenges of Globalization: Mexico, Chile, and South Kore." In Richard Sandbrook and Ali Guvin eds., Civilizing Globalization, A Survival Guide. Revised and Expanded Edition. State University of New York Press, 2014, pp. 63-75. "Violent Conflict and Uneven Development: The Case of Mexico." In William Ascher and Natalia Mirovitskaya, eds. Economic Development Strategies and the Evolution of Violence in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 41-69. |
