A Latin American Political Scientist

The publication in 1982 of Guillermo O'Donnell's exhaustive, incisive, but difficult book on the Argentine regime of 1966-1973 marked the culmination of a decade's work by a leading figure in the generation of social scientists who came to maturity during the heady years of resurgent popular movements and the nightmare years of military rule that followed. This book was one of the early contributions to what has now become an agonizing retrospective analysis by a whole generation of Argentine intellectuals of the years leading up to the debacle of 1976 and their own role in it. 1 To those who have read only O'Donnell's articles on the bureaucratic-authoritarian state, this book will come as a surprise. It offers a far less "structural" account than they might expect. The book is far more concerned with intention, preconception, ideology, and blunder-in short, with the paraphernalia of political agency. It reflects the mood of a generation whose members still wonder whether they were responsible for what happened and whether they could have altered the course of events by acting otherwise

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• De las transiciones al estancamiento Revisitando la democratización en la obra de Guillermo O’Donnell

  Open Access•Diego Nieto, Juan Pablo Milanese•Co-herencia•2016

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