Guillermo O'Donnell and the Study of Democracy
Academic Conference
Monday, March 26 - 9:00am - 5:00pm
Tuesday, March 27 - 9:00am - 12:30pm
Fundación OSDE auditorium
Leandro N. Alem 1067
Buenos Aires
The Kellogg Institute for International Studies will celebrate the immense, forward-looking legacy of its founding academic director, the eminent political scientist Guillermo O’Donnell (1936–2011), with an academic conference focusing on his many contributions to democratization studies and his active engagement in the real world of politics in Latin America.
Conference participants include many scholars whom have themselves made major contributions to the study of democratic breakdowns, authoritarianism, democratic transitions, and democratic processes. Leading figures in this field, they are conversant with O’Donnell’s writings, sensitive to his theoretical concerns, and supportive of the normative commitments shared by the Kellogg Institute.
Partial list of participants and proposed topics:
Daniel Brinks
University of Texas, Austin
“Democracy, Citizenship and the Rule of Law”
Robert Fishman
University of Notre Dame
“Democracy and Markets: Notes on a Twenty-first Century Paradox”
Carlos Gervasoni
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
“Argentina’s Democracy Four Decades After Modernization and Bureaucratic Authoritarianism”
Lucas González
Universidad Catolica Argentina
Universidad de San Andrés
Universidad Nacional de General San Martín
"Shortcomings of Democracies in Latin America"
Marcelo Leiras
Universidad de San Andrés
“Income and Democracy: Theoretical Significance of the Argentine Exception”
Scott Mainwaring
University of Notre Dame
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
University of Pittsburgh
“Democratic Breakdown and Survival in Latin America, 1945-2005”
Sebastian Mazzuca
University of California, Berkeley
James McGuire
Wesleyan University
Gerardo Munck
University of Southern California
“Conceptualizing the Quality of Democracy: Issues and Insights in the Framing of a New Agenda”
Steve Levitsky
Harvard University
María Victoria Murillo
Columbia University
“Understanding Institutional Change: Lessons from Latin America”
María Matilde Ollier
Universidad de San Martín
“Delegative Presidential Leadership”
Enrique Peruzzotti
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
“Accountability Deficits of Delegative Democracies”
Timothy Power
Oxford University
“Theorizing a Moving Target: O’Donnell’s Changing Views of Postauthoritarian Regimes”
Philippe Schmitter
European University Institute
Jorge Vargas Cullell
Programa Estado de la Nación – Costa Rica
“Democracy, Citizenship and the State: O'Donnell's Critique of Procedural Democracy”
Laurence Whitehead
Oxford University
“Advantages and Downsides of Three of O’Donnell’s Convictions”
