Guillermo O'Donnell
Scott Mainwaring's tribute to Guillermo O'Donnell
Professor Emeritus, Senior Fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
(LLB, National University of Buenos Aires, 1958; Ph.D. Political Science, Yale University, 1987)
219 Hesburgh Center
574-631-6580 or home at 616-683-9856
email: godonnel@nd.edu
http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/guillermo-odonnell/
Geographic focus: Latin America; cross-regional
Thematic interests: The state; democracy; new democracies.
Current research: Democratic and state theory, and new democracies.
Selected publications: O’Donnell has published extensively on authoritarianism, democratization, and democratic theory. His books include Democracy, Agency, and the State (Oxford University Press, 2010); Modernization and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism, Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism, A Democracia no Brasil, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule, Development and the Art of Trespassing (coedited), Issues in Democratic Consolidation (coedited), and Poverty and Inequality in Latin America (coedited). With Notre Dame Press, he has published a collection of essays, Counterpoints, Selected Essays on Authoritarianism and Democratization (1999), The (Un)Rule of Law and New Democracies in Latin America (coedited, 1999), and Dissonances: Democratic Critiques (2007), another collection of essays.
Working Papers: #274: Democracy, Law, and Comparative Politics; #254: Polyarchies and the (Un)Rule of Law in Latin America; #253: Horizontal Accountability and New Polyarchies; #225: Poverty and Inequality in Latin America: Some Political Reflections; #222: Another Institutionalization: Latin America and Elsewhere; #172: Delegative Democracy?; #152:Argentina, de Nuevo.
