Schmitter’s Retrospective: A Few Dissenting Notes

Issue Date January 2010
Volume 21
Issue 1
Page Numbers 29-32
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Another coauthor of Transitions from Authoritarian Rule questions whether his former collaborator is underrating the current dangers to democracy.

About the Author

Guillermo O’Donnell is professor emeritus of political science and senior fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies of the University of Notre Dame and professor of political science at the University of San Martín, Argentina. In 2006, he was the first-ever recipient of the International Political Science Association’s Mattei Dogan Prize for lifetime achievement.

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