Guillermo O'Donnell was the Helen Kellogg Professor of Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame until his death in 2011. Philippe C. Schmitter is emeritus professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute. Laurence Whitehead is an Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and director of the Mexican Studies Programme.

• Foreword by Cynthia J. Arnson and Abraham F. LowenthalForeword to the 1986 edition by Abraham F. LowenthalPrefaceChapter 1. Introducing UncertaintyChapter 2. Defining Some Concepts (and Exposing Some Assumptions)Chapter 3. Opening (and Undermining) Authoritarian RegimesChapter 4. Negotiating (and Renegotiating) PactsChapter 5. Resurrecting Civil Society (and Restructuring Public Space)Chapter 6. Convoking Elections (and Provoking Parties)Chapter 7. Concluding (but Not Capitulating) with a MetaphorNotesIndex

Guillermo O'Donnell was the Helen Kellogg Professor of Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame until his death in 2011. Philippe C. Schmitter is emeritus professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute. Laurence Whitehead is an Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and director of the Mexican Studies Programme.

• Foreword by Cynthia J. Arnson and Abraham F. LowenthalForeword to the 1986 edition by Abraham F. LowenthalPrefaceChapter 1. Introducing UncertaintyChapter 2. Defining Some Concepts (and Exposing Some Assumptions)Chapter 3. Opening (and Undermining) Authoritarian RegimesChapter 4. Negotiating (and Renegotiating) PactsChapter 5. Resurrecting Civil Society (and Restructuring Public Space)Chapter 6. Convoking Elections (and Provoking Parties)Chapter 7. Concluding (but Not Capitulating) with a MetaphorNotesIndex

Guillermo O'Donnell was the Helen Kellogg Professor of Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame until his death in 2011. Philippe C. Schmitter is emeritus professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute. Laurence Whitehead is an Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and director of the Mexican Studies Programme.

• Foreword by Cynthia J. Arnson and Abraham F. LowenthalForeword to the 1986 edition by Abraham F. LowenthalPrefaceChapter 1. Introducing UncertaintyChapter 2. Defining Some Concepts (and Exposing Some Assumptions)Chapter 3. Opening (and Undermining) Authoritarian RegimesChapter 4. Negotiating (and Renegotiating) PactsChapter 5. Resurrecting Civil Society (and Restructuring Public Space)Chapter 6. Convoking Elections (and Provoking Parties)Chapter 7. Concluding (but Not Capitulating) with a MetaphorNotesIndex