Gerardo L Munck
Biographic Data
| ID | 267152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerardo L Munck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerardo L |
| FAMILY NAME | Munck |
| SIGNATURE | MUNCK G L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5462-6488 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1060 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Comparative Politics of Latin America
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The state as a determinant of democracy
This article claims that the state and, more precisely, whether the state has a rational-legal or a patrimonial public administration, affects (1) the extent to which democratic standards are met and (2) the costs of abandoning office and the support leaders unwilling to accept electoral defeat can expect to have within the state and their party. Further, this argument is elaborated so as to account for the typical political regime in contemporar…
Estados semipatrimoniales y democracias duraderas de baja calidad en América Latina
Este artículo afirma que el Estado afecta el cumplimiento de los estándares democráticos. También afecta los costos de abandonar un alto cargo público y el apoyo que un líder reacio a aceptar una derrota electoral puede esperar dentro del Estado y su partido. Se elabora este argumento para explicar el régimen político típico latinoamericano: democracias duraderas de baja calidad. Los Estados semipatrimoniales de América Latina determinan este res…
Latin American Politics and Society
Taking a fresh thematic approach to politics and society in Latin America, this introductory textbook analyzes the region's past and present in an accessible and engaging style well-suited to undergraduate students. The book provides historical insights into modern states and critical issues they are facing, with insightful analyses that are supported by empirical data, maps and timelines. Drawing upon cutting-edge research, the text considers cr…
Latin American Politics and Society
New directions in comparative politics
What is democracy? A reconceptualization of the quality of democracy
Works on the quality of democracy propose standards for evaluating politics beyond those encompassed by a minimal definition of democracy. Yet, what is the quality of democracy? This article first reconstructs and assesses current conceptualizations of the quality of democracy. Thereafter, it reconceptualizes the quality of democracy by equating it with democracy pure and simple, positing that democracy is a synthesis of political freedom and pol…
Assessing Set-Theoretic Comparative Methods
Set-theoretic comparative methods (STCM) have some appeal, but these methods as well as claims about these methods are deeply problematic. The most basic problem is that these methods reduce causation to a logical relation and erroneously posit that causal hypotheses can be formalized as a relation of material implication. In addition, advocated of STCM commonly misrepresent their relationship to quantitative and qualitative methods. STCM and sta…
Democratic Transitions
Building Democracy . . . Which Democracy? Ideology and Models of Democracy in Post-Transition Latin America
Politics in Latin America continued to be about democracy after the democratic transitions in Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s. An old concern – securing the minimal standard of democracy that had served as the goal of democratic transitions – remained relevant. But a new concern – the attainment of more than a minimal democracy – transformed politics about democracy. Actors who supported and opposed neoliberalism – the key axis of ideologica…
State or democracy first? Alternative perspectives on the state-democracy nexus
This article addresses the links between democracy, understood in minimal procedural terms, and the state, considered as a political centre that (1) has the monopoly of violence within a territory, (2) rules over a population that shares a sense of nationhood, and (3) delivers public goods other than political order. It considers two perspectives on these state-democracy links: one that holds that, to ensure successful democratization and endurin…
Cross-National Indices with Gender-Differentiated Data
Democratic Theory afterTransitions from Authoritarian Rule
Recent events across the globe make clear the complexities of the politics of “democratization” and the importance of developing nuanced and compelling understandings of these complexities. In Eurasia, “Color Revolutions” have given way to democratic disappointments and “authoritarian regimes.” In north Africa, an unanticipated upsurge of democratic movements has felled autocrats in Tunisia and Egypt, but the political outcomes of these “transiti…
The Quest For Standards
Repensando la cuestión democrática
poder para proteger los derechos civiles y sociales.Forjar un consenso acerca de esta visión más completa de la democracia es un reto importante del pensamiento latinoamericano sobre la democracia
Los orígenes y la durabilidad de la democracia en América Latina
una visión general de la literatura sobre la lucha por la democracia en américa Latina.después de introducir la agenda de investigación sobre regímenes políticos y democracia en américa Latina, se enfoca en los debates teóricos acerca del origen y la durabilidad de la democracia, y discute las principales ideas y críticas teóricas así como los hallazgos de la investigación empírica.La discusión
Measuring Democracy
Democracy and Development in a Globalized World
Measuring democracy
Regimes and Democracy in Latin America
This volume focuses on democracy in Latin America, and both assesses the state of current knowledge on the topic and identifies new research frontiers in the study of Latin American politics. It provides an overview of research agendas and strategies used in the literature over the past four decades. It tackles a series of central questions-What is democracy? Is democracy an absolute value? Are current conceptualizations of democracy adequate? Ho…
Regimes and Democracy in Latin America
Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics
The human dimension of comparative research / Richard Snyder -- The past and present of comparative politics / Gerardo L. Munck -- The interviews: Gabriel A. Almond: structural functionalism and political development -- Barrington Moore, Jr.: the critical spirit and comparative historical analysis -- Robert A. Dahl: normative theory, empirical research, and democracy -- Juan J. Linz: political regimes and the quest for knowledge -- Samuel P. Hunt…
Agendas y estrategiasde investigación en el estudio de la política latinoamericana
Este artículo se enfoca en investigaciones pasadas y actuales de la política Latinoamericana. Ofrece unarevisión de las agendas de investigación desarrolladas en las cuatro últimas décadas, poniendo énfasis enla evolución de una política comparada de América Latina. También aborda las estrategias familias demétodos utilizadas en la investigación de la política Latinoamericana y provee una evaluación de estasestrategias. Aunque las contribuciones …
Debating the Direction of Comparative Politics
This article contributes to ongoing debates about the direction of comparative politics through an analysis of new data on the scope, objectives, and methods of research in the field. The results of the analysis are as follows. Comparative politics is a rich and diverse field that cannot be accurately characterized on the basis of just one dimension or even summarized in simple terms. In turn, the tendency to frame choices about the direction of …
Visions of Comparative Politics
Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy
A comprehensive and integrated framework for the analysis of data is offered and used to assess data sets on democracy. The framework first distinguishes among three challenges that are sequentially addressed: conceptualization, measurement, and aggregation. In turn, it specifies distinct tasks associated with these challenges and the standards of assessment that pertain to each task. This framework is applied to the data sets on democracy most f…
What is democracy? A reconceptualization of the quality of democracy
Works on the quality of democracy propose standards for evaluating politics beyond those encompassed by a minimal definition of democracy. Yet, what is the quality of democracy? This article first reconstructs and assesses current conceptualizations of the quality of democracy. Thereafter, it reconceptualizes the quality of democracy by equating it with democracy pure and simple, positing that democracy is a synthesis of political freedom and pol…
Debating the Direction of Comparative Politics
This article contributes to ongoing debates about the direction of comparative politics through an analysis of new data on the scope, objectives, and methods of research in the field. The results of the analysis are as follows. Comparative politics is a rich and diverse field that cannot be accurately characterized on the basis of just one dimension or even summarized in simple terms. In turn, the tendency to frame choices about the direction of …
Modes of Transition and Democratization
Democratic Transitions in Comparative Perspective
In spite of the broad-ranging nature of the literature on democratic transitions, it is possible to provide a general assessment of the state of the literature. This review stresses a series of disagreements concerning the effect of the ancien regime on the processes of transition and democratic consolidation and the effect of the transitional process on the problems of democratic consolidation. It argues that these disagreements are linked to di…
State or democracy first? Alternative perspectives on the state-democracy nexus
This article addresses the links between democracy, understood in minimal procedural terms, and the state, considered as a political centre that (1) has the monopoly of violence within a territory, (2) rules over a population that shares a sense of nationhood, and (3) delivers public goods other than political order. It considers two perspectives on these state-democracy links: one that holds that, to ensure successful democratization and endurin…
Assessing Set-Theoretic Comparative Methods
Set-theoretic comparative methods (STCM) have some appeal, but these methods as well as claims about these methods are deeply problematic. The most basic problem is that these methods reduce causation to a logical relation and erroneously posit that causal hypotheses can be formalized as a relation of material implication. In addition, advocated of STCM commonly misrepresent their relationship to quantitative and qualitative methods. STCM and sta…
Canons of research design in qualitative analysis
Democratic Politics in Latin America
This assessment of research on contemporary democratic politics in Latin America is organized around the distinction between institutional and alternative approaches. Initially it considers institutionalism on its own terms and, through an assessment of the debate about the institutional causes of gridlock, draws attention to key strengths of this literature. Thereafter, this article adopts a broader perspective that exposes some limitations but …
Cross-National Indices with Gender-Differentiated Data
Democratic Theory afterTransitions from Authoritarian Rule
Recent events across the globe make clear the complexities of the politics of “democratization” and the importance of developing nuanced and compelling understandings of these complexities. In Eurasia, “Color Revolutions” have given way to democratic disappointments and “authoritarian regimes.” In north Africa, an unanticipated upsurge of democratic movements has felled autocrats in Tunisia and Egypt, but the political outcomes of these “transiti…
Patterns of Representation and Competition
Taking the military government led by General Augusto Pinochet (1973-90) as the immediate background for an understanding of political parties in Chile's current politics, this article pursues three related goals. First, it identifies the most important elements of continuity and change between the pre- and post-Pinochet periods, drawing attention to positive elements, such as the tripartite division of the party system, the institutionalized nat…
Generating Better Data
The comments on our article are a sign of the seriousness with which scholars are considering matters of data generation and, more specifically, the problem of conceptualizing and measuring democracy. Hence we welcome the authors’ reflections on the difficult yet essential task of generating better data. Some points of disagreement remain, and we will address them. But we mainly seek to discuss and build on the constructive suggestions provided i…
Beyond electoralism in El Salvador
(1993). Beyond electoralism in El Salvador: Conflict resolution through negotiated compromise. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 75-93
The state as a determinant of democracy
This article claims that the state and, more precisely, whether the state has a rational-legal or a patrimonial public administration, affects (1) the extent to which democratic standards are met and (2) the costs of abandoning office and the support leaders unwilling to accept electoral defeat can expect to have within the state and their party. Further, this argument is elaborated so as to account for the typical political regime in contemporar…
Game Theory and Comparative Politics
In an effort to take stock of the claims put forth by advocates of game theory, this article offers an assessment that considers game theory both as a set of theoretical principles that extends rational choice theory to interdependent decision making and as a type of formal methodology. Some important strengths of game theory are identified, such as its emphasis on actors and strategic choices and its ability to generate predictions in a logicall…
Los orígenes y la durabilidad de la democracia en América Latina
una visión general de la literatura sobre la lucha por la democracia en américa Latina.después de introducir la agenda de investigación sobre regímenes políticos y democracia en américa Latina, se enfoca en los debates teóricos acerca del origen y la durabilidad de la democracia, y discute las principales ideas y críticas teóricas así como los hallazgos de la investigación empírica.La discusión
Agendas y estrategiasde investigación en el estudio de la política latinoamericana
Este artículo se enfoca en investigaciones pasadas y actuales de la política Latinoamericana. Ofrece unarevisión de las agendas de investigación desarrolladas en las cuatro últimas décadas, poniendo énfasis enla evolución de una política comparada de América Latina. También aborda las estrategias familias demétodos utilizadas en la investigación de la política Latinoamericana y provee una evaluación de estasestrategias. Aunque las contribuciones …
Monitoreando la democracia
Este trabajo considera el monitoreo de la democracia y aborda cuatro preguntas: ¿Por qué debe monitorearse la democracia?¿Quiénes son los monitores?¿Qué debe monitorearse?Y, ¿cómo debe llevarse a cabo el monitoreo?Primero articula el consenso emergente referido al monitoreo de la democracia.Luego la discusión se vuelca a varios nuevos desafíos que necesitan ser resueltos.Específicamente, el artículo se focaliza en los desafíos de reconocer y bala…
Gobernabilidad democratica a comienzos del siglo XXI
Gerardo L. Munck, Gobernabilidad democrática a comienzos del siglo XXI: una perspectiva latinoamericana (Democratic Governance at the Beginning of the 21st Century: A Latin American Perspective), Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 65, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 2003), pp. 565-588
Bringing Postcommunist Societies into Democratization Studies
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Actor Formation, Social Co-Ordination, and Political Strategy
A survey of the literature on social movements shows that the contributions by American and European scholars have shed considerable light on two problems: why social movements emerge with particular identities and how organisers give coherence to a movement and co-ordinate the actions of their followers. The challenge faced by movement organisers in seeking to bring about change - a challenge that forces a social movement to engage strategically…
Democratic Stability and Its Limits
Once again, Chile stands out within the Latin American region. In the early 1970s, Salvador Allende's brand of socialism attracted worldwide attention and captured the imagination of the international Left. In the years thereafter, Pinochet's authoritarianism set the pace for a global resurgence of the new Right. Finally, in just the last few years, Chile has become a symbol of a new sort, rapidly establishing itself as a democratic success story…
Repensando la cuestión democrática
poder para proteger los derechos civiles y sociales.Forjar un consenso acerca de esta visión más completa de la democracia es un reto importante del pensamiento latinoamericano sobre la democracia
Visions of Comparative Politics
Identity and Ambiguity in Democratic Struggles
El estado en América Latina
Capitalism and Democracy
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Beyond electoralism in El Salvador
(1993). Beyond electoralism in El Salvador: Conflict resolution through negotiated compromise. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 75-93
Between Theory and History and Beyond Traditional Area Studies
Democratic Transitions in Comparative Perspective
In spite of the broad-ranging nature of the literature on democratic transitions, it is possible to provide a general assessment of the state of the literature. This review stresses a series of disagreements concerning the effect of the ancien regime on the processes of transition and democratic consolidation and the effect of the transitional process on the problems of democratic consolidation. It argues that these disagreements are linked to di…
Democratic Stability and Its Limits
Once again, Chile stands out within the Latin American region. In the early 1970s, Salvador Allende's brand of socialism attracted worldwide attention and captured the imagination of the international Left. In the years thereafter, Pinochet's authoritarianism set the pace for a global resurgence of the new Right. Finally, in just the last few years, Chile has become a symbol of a new sort, rapidly establishing itself as a democratic success story…
Authoritarianism, Modernization, and Democracy in Chile
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Civil conflicts and the conditions for successful international intervention
As the Cold War has receded, it has left behind a world system characterized by two divergent trends. On the one hand, as the two superpowers have withdrawn their security umbrellas, a host of ethnic and territorial conflicts have sprouted around the globe. On the other hand, as former rival blocs now create alliances, international mechanisms for the peaceful resolution of contentious issues have proliferated. A central concern of our times, the…
Algunos problemas conceptuales en el estudio de los movimientos sociales
hacia el cambio por una mlasa descentralizada encabezada, de una manera no jerirquica, poil un actor social, han jugad(o un papel importante eni la historia reciente. Han sido, tambi6n, un topico importante de debate teorico. Despu6s de 1968, surgieron dos escuelas en Estados Unidos y en Europa, cada una proponiendo contribuciones particulares al amilisis de los movimientos sociales. Aunque estas dos escuelas, a partir de las nociones de cstrateg…
Actor Formation, Social Co-Ordination, and Political Strategy
A survey of the literature on social movements shows that the contributions by American and European scholars have shed considerable light on two problems: why social movements emerge with particular identities and how organisers give coherence to a movement and co-ordinate the actions of their followers. The challenge faced by movement organisers in seeking to bring about change - a challenge that forces a social movement to engage strategically…
La democratización en perspectiva comparada. El debate contemporáneo
Economics and Democratic Transitions
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Modes of Transition and Democratization
Bringing Postcommunist Societies into Democratization Studies
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Formação de Atores, Coordenação Social e Estratégia Política
Modos de transição em perspectiva comparada
Embora a literatura sobre democratização tenha dedicado consideravel atenção ao conceito de modos de transição, as tentativas de explicar as perspectivas de consolidação democrática como conseqüência do modo de transição revelam-se inconclusivas. Revisitando esse debate, este artigo sustenta que o modo de transição afeta o padrão de competição entre elites, as regas institucionais elaboradas durante o período de transição e a disposição de atores…
Canons of research design in qualitative analysis
Patterns of Representation and Competition
Taking the military government led by General Augusto Pinochet (1973-90) as the immediate background for an understanding of political parties in Chile's current politics, this article pursues three related goals. First, it identifies the most important elements of continuity and change between the pre- and post-Pinochet periods, drawing attention to positive elements, such as the tripartite division of the party system, the institutionalized nat…
Building Democracy in Latin America
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Teoria dos jogos e política comparada
Seeking to conduct an inventory of the arguments used by game theory proponents, the article assesses both this theory and a set of theoretical principles that extend the scope from rational choice to interdependent decision-making and a type of formal methodology. The article identifies some key qualities, like the theory s emphasis on actors and strategic choices and its ability to generate logically rigorous and internally consistent predictio…
The Regime Question
This review article assesses the accomplishments and limitations of the best of recent research on democratization and democracy in Europe, South America, and post-Soviet Eurasia with regard to the challenge of theory building. Concerning the dependent variables of this literature, the article argues that the concepts of democratic transition, democratic consolidation, and democratic quality, as currently conceptualized, do not provide a clear fo…
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Game Theory and Comparative Politics
In an effort to take stock of the claims put forth by advocates of game theory, this article offers an assessment that considers game theory both as a set of theoretical principles that extends rational choice theory to interdependent decision making and as a type of formal methodology. Some important strengths of game theory are identified, such as its emphasis on actors and strategic choices and its ability to generate predictions in a logicall…
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