About Robert A. Packenham

Robert A. Packenham is Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Sanford University where he taught from 1965 to 2006 in the fields of comparative and Latin American politics. His main research interests have included theories and ideologies of development, including political development; state-market relations and development; social science and public policy. He is the author of Liberal America and the Third World: Political Development Ideas in Foreign Aid and Social Science (Princeton University Press, 1973, 1976, 2015) and The Dependency Movement: Scholarship and Politics in Development Studies (Harvard University Press, 1992, 1998)