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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Guillermo O'Donnell (, Helen Kellogg Professor of Government, Emeritus, University of Notre Dame and Honorary Professor of Political Science, Universidad Nacional del San Martín, Argentina)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.543kg ISBN: 9780199587612ISBN 10: 0199587612 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 24 June 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: The Democratic Regime (or Political Democracy), and Citizenship as Agency 2: Agency: Origins, Concomitants, and Expansion. 3: The State: Definition, Dimensions and Historical Emergence 4: The Varying Referents of the State: Nation, People, Citizenry 5: The State as Law: Contributions and Ambivalences 6: The Multiple Faces of the State and its Underlying Unity. 7: Dialogics, Agency, and Democracy 8: An Overview of Latin America 9: Social Context, Options and Convergences 10: The Conundrums of Globalization and Legal Pluralism 11: Conclusions Works CitedReviewsAs one of the preeminent scholars on democracy and democratization, O'Donnell (emer., Notre Dame Univ.) provides a historical, comparative, and multi-disciplinary analysis of the nuances found in disparate manifestations of democracy, as well as a critique of many of the common academic assumptions about democracy... Highly recommended. * L.M Barnett, Choice, Mar 2011 * As one of the preeminent scholars on democracy and democratization, O'Donnell (emer., Notre Dame Univ.) provides a historical, comparative, and multi-disciplinary analysis of the nuances found in disparate manifestations of democracy, as well as a critique of many of the common academic assumptions about democracy... Highly recommended. L.M Barnett, Choice, Mar 2011 Author InformationDr Guillermo O'Donnell was born in Argentina. He has a Law Degree from Nacional University of Buenos Aires and a PhD in Political Science from Yale University. During the 1976-1983 Argentine military military dictatorship he left the country, first for Brazil and later for the United States. He was director of CEDES in Argentina. Former Visiting Professor and Researcher in IUPERJ and CEBRAP (both Brazil), University of California, Berkeley, and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study (Princeton) and of the Center for Advanced Research in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College and John Winant Professor at Balliol (Oxford), and Simón Bolívar Professor (Cambridge). And from 1982 to 2008 the Helen Kellogg Professor of Government, and from 1982 to 1996 the Academic Director of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies (University of Notre Dame). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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