Drake specializes in Latin American political economy. He is the sole author of three award-winning books—Socialism and Populism in Chile, The Money Doctor in the Andes, and Labor Movements and Dictatorships—and the editor or co-editor of seven anthologies. His latest single-author book is entitled Between Tyranny and Anarchy: A History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006 (Stanford, 2009). He has also published over fifty research articles on Latin America in journals and edited volumes. He was elected President of the Latin American Studies Association in 1988. He holds the Institute of the Americas Chair at UCSD, where he previously served as Director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, the Chair of the Political Science Department, and the Dean of Social Sciences.

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