Gustavo Flores-Macías is assistant professor of Government at Cornell University. He received a PhD in comparative government from Georgetown University and a master’s in public policy from Duke University, where he was a Fulbright scholar. His research focuses mainly on the politics of economic reforms in the developing world, with an emphasis on Latin America. His book, After Neoliberalism? The Left and Economic Reforms in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2012) studies the economic policies of left-of-center governments in the region, focusing on the role that party systems play in facilitating or hindering economic transformations. His work has also appeared in such journals as American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Politics, Peace Review, Political Science Quarterly, and Studies in Comparative International Development, and in a number of edited volumes. Before joining Cornell, he served in Mexico’s Ministry of the Economy as director of Public Affairs in that country’s Consumer Protection Agency.