Reflections on Uneven Democracies

Daniel Brinks is an associate professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of The Judicial Response to Police Killings in Latin America: Inequality and the Rule of Law. Marcelo Leiras is an assistant professor of political science and international relations at Universidad de San Andres in Argentina, where he is also director of the Master of Public Administration and Policy program. Scott Mainwaring is the Eugene and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is the coauthor of Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America: Emergence, Survival, and Fall.

• PrefaceIntroduction. Guillermo O'Donnell and the Study of Democracy Part I: Democratic Breakdowns, Survival, and TransitionsChapter 1. Democratic Breakdown and Survival in Latin America, 1945–2005Chapter 2. Argentina's Democracy Four Decades after Modernization and Bureaucratic-AuthoritarianismChapter 3. Reflections on "Transitology": Before and AfterPart II: The Political Economy of Democracy and Authoritarianism Chapter 4. Rentier Populism and the Rise of Super-presidents in South AmericaChapter 5. Democracy and Markets: Notes on a Twenty-First-Century ParadoxChapter 6. Inequality and Democracy: Latin American Lessons for the United StatesChapter 7. Economic Performance, Political Competition, and Regime Stability in Postwar Latin AmericaPart III: Weak Formal Institutions, Rule of Law, and Delegate DemocracyChapter 8. Theorizing a Moving Target: O'Donnell's Changing Views of Postauthoritarian RegimesChapter 9. Building Institutions on Weak Foundations: Lessons from Latin AmericaChapter 10. Inequality and the Rule of Law: Ineffective Rights in Latin American DemocraciesChapter 11. Unpacking Delegative Democracy: Digging into the Empirical Content of a Rich Theoretical ConceptChapter 12. Accountability Deficits of Delegative DemocracyPart IV: Human Agency and the Quality of DemocracyChapter 13. Democracy, Agency, and the Classification of Political RegimesChapter 14. Democracy and Democratization: Guillermo O'Donnell's Late Attempt to Rework Democratic TheoryPart V: Guillermo O'Donnell and the Study of PoliticsChapter 15. "A mí, sí, me importa": Guillermo O'Donnell's Approach to Theorizing with Normative and Comparative IntentConclusion. Studying Big Political IssuesTimelineReferencesList of ContributorsIndex

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