Guillermo O'Donnell and the Study of Democracy
Academic Conference Program
Monday, March 26
Tuesday, March 27
Fundación OSDE Auditorium
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Click on the paper titles for abstracts. If the full paper is available, it will be linked at the end of the abstract. Please note that not all papers are available.
Monday, March 26
9:00am-9:10am
Welcome: Daniel Brinks, Marcelo Leiras , Scott Mainwaring, and Gabriela Ippolito-O’Donnell
9:10am–10:45am
Panel 1: New Takes on Modernization, Authoritarianism, and Democracy
Chair: José María Ghio (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)
“Democratic Breakdown and Survival in Latin America, 1945–2005”
Aníbal Pérez–Liñán (University of Pittsburgh) and Scott Mainwaring (University of Notre Dame)
Discussant: Alfred Stepan (Columbia University)
“Argentina’s Democracy Four Decades After Modernization and Bureaucratic Authoritarianism”
Carlos Gervasoni (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)
Discussant: Eduardo Viola (Universidade de Brasília)
“Income and Democracy: Theoretical Significance of the Argentine Exception”
Marcelo Leiras (Universidad de San Andrés)
Discussant: Rodrigo Zarazaga, SJ (Centro de Investigación y Acción Social)
10:45am–11:00am
Break
11:00am–1:00pm
Panel 2: New Takes on the Political Economy of Authoritarianism and Democratization
Chair: Abraham Lowenthal(University of Southern California)
“Class Structure, Distributive Conflict, and Democracy: Brazil and Argentina in Comparative Perspective”
James McGuire (Wesleyan University)
Discussant: Ximena Simpson (Universidad Nacional de San Martín)
“New Alliances for a New State Rentier Populism and the Emergence of Plebiscitarian Hegemonies in South America”
Sebastian Mazzuca (University of California, Berkeley)
Discussant: Carlos Acuña (Universidad de San Andrés)
“Democracy and Inequality: Latin America and the United Sates Compared”
Terry Lynn Karl (Stanford University)
Discussant: Luis Tonelli (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
“Democracy and Markets: Notes on a Twenty-first Century Paradox”
Robert Fishman (University of Notre Dame)
Discussant: Evelyne Huber (University of North Carolina)
1:00pm–1:45pm
Lunch
1:45pm–3:15pm
Panel 3: Institutions and Democratic Citizenship
Chair: M. Gloria Trocello (Universidad Nacional de San Luis)
“Understanding Institutional Change: Lessons from Latin America”
Steven Levitsky (Harvard University) and María Victoria Murillo (Columbia University)
Discussant: Michael Coppedge (University of Notre Dame)
“Democracy, Citizenship, and the Rule of Law”
Daniel Brinks (University of Texas, Austin) and Sandra Botero (University of Notre Dame)
Discussant: Paola Bergallo (Universidad de San Andrés)
“Two Items Left Over from My Discussions with Guillermo: The Consolidation of Democracy and the Rule of Law”
Philippe Schmitter (European University Institute)
Discussant: Catalina Smulovitz (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)
3:15pm–3:30pm
Break
3:30pm–5:00pm
Panel 4: Delegative Democracy
Chair: Alberto Föhrig (Universidad de San Andrés)
“Delegative Presidential Leadership”
María Matilde Ollier (Universidad Nacional de San Martín)
Discussant: Martín D’Alessandro (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
“Unpacking Delegative Democracy: Digging into the Empirical Content of a Rich Theoretical Concept”
Lucas González (Universidad Católica Argentina, Universidad Nacional de San Martín)
Discussant: Gustavo Dufour (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
“The Various Accountability Deficits of Delegative Democracies”
Enrique Peruzzotti (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)
Discussant: Isidoro Cheresky (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
7:00pm
Dinner
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
9:00am–10:00am
Panel 5: Quality of Democracy
Chair: Miguel De Luca (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
“Conceptualizing the Quality of Democracy: Issues and Insights in the Framing of a New Agenda”
Gerardo Munck (University of Southern California)
Discussant: David Collier (University of California, Berkeley)
“Democracy, Citizenship, and the State: O'Donnell's Critique of Procedural Democracy”
Jorge Vargas Cullell (Programa Estado de la Nación, Costa Rica)
Discussant: Francisco Weffort (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
10:00am–11:00am
Panel 6: Perspectives on O’Donnell’s Work
Chair: Timothy Scully (University of Notre Dame)
“Advantages and Downsides of Three of O’Donnell’s Convictions”
Laurence Whitehead (Oxford University)
Discussant: David Lehmann (Cambridge University)
“Theorizing a Moving Target: O’Donnell’s Changing Views of Postauthoritarian Regimes”
Timothy Power (Oxford University)
Discussant: Cynthia Arnson (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
11:00am–11:15am
Break
11:15am–12:30pm
Closing Session: Advancing the Research Agenda on Democratization
Chair: Scott Mainwaring
Participant Discussion on moving conference ideas forward
Closing Remarks: Daniel Brinks, Marcelo Leiras, Scott Mainwaring, and Gabriela Ippolito-O’Donnell
