Drake specializes in Chilean politics and, more generally, in Latin American political economy. He is the author of Socialism and Populism in Chile, 1932-52; The Money Doctor in the Andes; and Money Doctors, Foreign Debts, and Economic Reforms in Latin America, from the 1890s to the Present. He has co-edited Elections and Democratization in Latin America, 1980-85; El Apra de la ideologia a la praxis; and The Struggle for Democracy in Chile, 1982-90. He has contributed over three dozen articles and chapters to journals and edited volumes. Professor Drake received the Bolton Prize for Socialism and Populism in Chile and the Bryce Wood Prize for The Money Doctor in the Andes; he was elected President of the Latin American Studies Association in 1988. His current research examines labor movements under authoritarian regimes.

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E-mail: pdrake@ucsd.edu