Alfred P. Montero (born March 24, 1969) is Frank B. Kellogg Professor of

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, specializing in

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. He has also done in-depth studies of

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and

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, and is the faculty director of an off-campus studies program at Carleton that focuses on the European Union as well as European Political Economy at the subnational level. Montero is the adviser of the

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scholars program at Carleton. He has previously taught a comparative off-campus studies seminal with Roy Grow, a Carleton professor specializing in the

political economy Political or comparative economy is a branch of political science and economics studying economic systems (e.g. Marketplace, markets and national economies) and their governance by political systems (e.g. law, institutions, and government). Wi ...

of East Asia. Montero was a double major in political science and Latin American studies

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, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1990. He received a PhD in political science with Distinction from

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in 1997. He is married to renowned Spanish linguist Mar Valdecantos, whom he met at a bullfight in

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, Spain, while conducting research for his first book.

Books by Alfred Montero

* ''Shifting States in Global Markets: Subnational Industrial Policy in Contemporary Brazil and Spain'' (

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, 2002). * ''Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America'', co-edited w/ David Samuels (

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, 2004). * ''Brazilian Politics: Reforming a Democratic State in a Changing World'' (

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, 2005). * ''Brazil: Reversal of Fortune'' (Polity Press, 2014)

References

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