Scott P. Mainwaring
Eugene P. and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science
Director, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
(PhD, Stanford University, 1983)
130G Hesburgh Center
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5677
574-631-8530
email: smainwar@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~smainwar
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: 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); and The Catholic Church and Politics in Brazil, 1916-1985 (1986). Articles have appeared 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.
