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 Modernization and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism , Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism, A Democracia no Brasil , Transitions from Authoritarian Rule, Development and the Art of Tresspassing (co-edited), Issues in Democratic Consolidation (co-edited), and Poverty and Inequality in Latin America (co-edited). 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. He is presently working on a book on the state and democracy.

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.