Counterpoints : Selected Essays on Authoritarianism and Democratization

by O'Donnell, Guillermo A.

• ISBN13: 9780268008383
• ISBN10: 0268008388
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Author Biography

Guillermo O'Donnell, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, is the Helen Kellogg Professor of Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Misadventures
State and Alliances in Argentina, 1956-1976	p. 3
Tensions in the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian State and the Question of Democracy	p. 35
Despotisms
Democracy in Argentina: Macro and Micro	p. 51
On the Fruitful Convergences of Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty and Shifting Involvements: Reflections from the Recent Argentine Experience	p. 63
"And Why Should I Give a Shit?" Notes on Sociability and Politics in Argentina and Brazil	p. 81
Transitions
Notes for the Study of Processes of Political Democratization in the Wake of the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian State	p. 109
Perspectives
On the State, Democratization, and Some Conceptual Problems: A Latin American View with Glances at Some Postcommunist Countries	p. 133
Delegative Democracy	p. 159
Illusions about Consolidation	p. 175
Poverty and Inequality in Latin America: Some Political Reflections	p. 195
Appendix
Books and Other Publications by the Author	p. 217
Index	p. 223
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