Scott P. Mainwaring

Eugene P. and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science
(PhD, Stanford University, 1983)
204 Hesburgh Center
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5677
574-631-8530
email: smainwar@nd.edu
http://kellogg.nd.edu/scottmainwaring

Geographic focus: Latin America (Brazil, Southern Cone, Andean region)

Thematic interests: Democratic institutions and democratization; political parties; the Catholic Church in Latin America.

Selected publications:

• Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America: Emergence, Survival and Fall (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)

• “From Representative Democracy to Participatory Competitive Authoritarianism: Hugo Chávez and Venezuelan Politics,” Perspectives on Politics 10, 4 (2012)

• “Introduction: Alfred Stepan and the Study of Democratic Regimes,” in Douglas Chalmers and Scott Mainwaring, eds., Problems Confronting Contemporary Democracies: Essays in Honor of Alfred Stepan (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012)

• Coeditor, Democratic Governance in Latin America (2010)

• Coeditor, The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes (2006)

• Coeditor, The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks (2005)

• Coeditor, Christian Democracy in Latin America: Electoral Conflict and Regime Change (2003)

• Rethinking Party Systems in the Third Wave of Democratization: The Case of Brazil (1999)

• Coeditor, Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America (1997)

• Coeditor, Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America (1995)

• The Catholic Church and Politics in Brazil, 1916–1985 (1986)

• Articles in Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, British Journal of Political Science, and many other journals

Working Papers:

• Coauthor, #304: The Nationalization of Parties and Party Systems: An Empirical Measure and an Application to the Americas

• Coauthor, #301: Level of Development and Democracy: Latin American Exceptionalism, 1945-1996

• Coauthor #280: Classifying Political Regimes in Latin America, 1945-1999

• Coauthor, #278: The Political Recrafting of Social Bases of Party Competition: Chile in the 1990s

• #271: Federalism, Constraints on the Central Government, and Economic Reform in Democratic Brazil

• #267: Survivability in Latin America

Honors:

• Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010

• James C. Burns, CSC Graduate School Award, given annually to a Notre Dame faculty member for distinguished teaching of graduate students, 2005

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