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 Jim Payne began his career as a scholar in 1961 when, as an undergraduate at Oberlin College, he went to Peru to study the labor movement. His book on the subject –Labor and Politics in Peru—was published by Yale University Press. His doctoral work took him to Colombia where he wrote comprehensive analysis of national politics, Patterns of Conflict in Colombia, also published by Yale. After obtaining his PhD in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1968, he taught at Yale and Wesleyan, and later Johns Hopkins and Texas A & M University. In addition to his three books on Latin American politics, he has published works on social science methodology and epistemology, and international politics and defense policy. In 1985, he left academia to become a free-lance researcher, and in this capacity has written books on militarism (Why Nations Arm, Basil Blackwell), Congress, the budget, and the case for term limits (The Culture of Spending, ICS Press), the federal tax system (Costly Returns, ICS Press), and welfare policy (Overcoming Welfare; Expecting More from the Poor - And from Ourselves, Basic Books). Jim makes his home in Sandpoint, Idaho with his wife Judith. His hobbies include gold panning, kayaking (he finished a trip down the Columbia River in 2002), organ playing, and singing. He is also a certified piano technician and organ tuner-technician. His volunteer activities include the board of a local private school (The Selkirk School), director of a private school scholarship fund (Sandpoint Educational Opportunity), participation in Habitat for Humanity and the Sandpoint Committee on Television Awareness.
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