James W. McGuire

Department of Government
Wesleyan University
jmcguire@wesleyan.edu
James McGuire is Professor in the Department of Government and a member of the Latin American Studies Program at Wesleyan University. He received his BA from Swarthmore and his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has held residential fellowships at the Kellogg Insitute for International Studies (1988), the Pacific Council on International Policy (1996-97), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2000-01), and the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (2003).

McGuire is the author of Peronism without Perón (Stanford, 1997) and of articles on parties, unions, and strikes in Argentina; on transitions from authoritarianism in Latin America; on determinants of economic growth and income distribution in East Asia and Latin America; and on determinants of the pattern and pace of mortality decline in developing societies, including Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, South Korea, and Taiwan. His new book, Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America (Cambridge, in press), will be published in early 2010. It explores why some developing countries have done better than others at raising life expectancy and reducing infant mortality. The table of contents is here.