Guillermo O'Donnell
(Ll.B., National University of Buenos Aires, 1958, and Yale University, 1987) Helen Kellogg Professor, 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 , Issues in Democratic Consolidation , and Poverty and Inequality in Latin America . In 1999 he published Counterpoints, Selected Essays on Authoritarianism and Democratization, and The (Un )Rule of Law and New Democracies in Latin America (coedited), both by the University of Notre Dame Press , while continuing work on a book on new democratic theory and new democracies. O'Donnell is former academic director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies of the University of Notre Dame, president (1988-1991) of the International Political Science Association, fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, and visiting professor of the Universities of California (Berkeley), Michigan ( Ann Arbor ) and Sao Paulo . He also was Director of CEDES ( Argentina ), and senior researcher at IUPERJ and CEBRAP ( Brazil ). Since 1995 he is Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Advising specialties:
Graduate programs in political science
Research and teaching interests:
Democratic theory; comparative democracy and democratization; Latin America 's politics and society; relationships between legal and political theory
Contact Information
Email: odonnell.1@nd.edu
Office: 219 Hesburgh Center
Phone: (office) (574) 631-7756
Phone: (home) (616) 683-9856
Mailing Address:
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556