About
David Samuels, Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, includes among his research and teaching interests Brazilian and Latin American politics, US–Latin American relations, and democratization. The coeditor of Comparative Political Studies, he is the author of Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers (with Matthew Shugart, Cambridge University Press, 2010), and, with Ben Ansell, Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2014). He holds a PhD from University of California, San Diego.