Richard Snyder is Professor of Political Science at Brown University. He is the author of Politics after Neoliberalism: Reregulation in Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and Passion, Craft and Method in Comparative Politics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, with Gerardo L. Munck). He is also the editor of three volumes on the political economy of rural Mexico (Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1998-2000). Among Snyder's recent articles are "Scaling Down: The Subnational Comparative Method" in Studies in Comparative International Development (2001), "Diamonds, Blood, and Taxes: A Revenue-Centered Framework for Explaining Political Order," in Journal of Conflict Resolution (2005, with Ravi Bhavnani), "Does Lootable Wealth Breed Disorder? A Political Economy of Extraction Framework" in Comparative Political Studies (2006), and "Beyond Electoral Authoritarianism: The Spectrum of Nondemocratic Regimes," in Andreas Schedler, ed. Electoral Authoritarianism: The Dynamics of Unfree Competition (2006). His other articles on political regimes and the political economy of development have appeared in journals such as British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Journal of Democracy, and World Politics. Currently, his main research interests are the effects of "lootable wealth" on political order, and the responsiveness of democratic regimes to marginalized citizens in Latin America.