Gerardo L. Munck
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Gerardo L. Munck | |
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| Born | October 13, 1958 |
| Alma mater | University of California, San Diego |
| Known for | Comparative politics |
Gerardo L. Munck (born October 13, 1958)[citation needed] is a professor of political Science and international relations at the University of Southern California.
Career
Munck earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of New Hampshire, a Master's in Latin American Studies at Stanford University, and his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).[2]
Research
Munck works in the field of comparative politics specializing in political regimes and democracy, methodology, and politics in Latin America.[3][4]
United Nations Development Programme work
Munck collaborated with Dante Caputo and Guillermo O'Donnell in the preparation of the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) report Democracy in Latin America. Toward a Citizens’ Democracy (2004).[5]
He also worked with Dante Caputo on a second regional report on democracy in Latin America prepared by the UNDP and the Organization of American States (OAS), Nuestra democracia (2010).[6]
With the UNDP, he elaborated a system to monitor corruption in Afghanistan,[7] and wrote background papers for the UNDP regional reports on Asia and the Pacific on corruption and gender equality.[8]
Organization of American States work
Munck developed a methodology to monitor elections for the Organization of American States (OAS).[9]
Open Government Partnership work
Munck was a member of the inaugural International Experts Panel of the Open Government Partnership.[10]
Personal life
Munck's grandmother is swimmer Lilian Harrison. His brother is sociologist Ronaldo Munck.[11]
Selected publications
Books
A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America (with Sebastián L. Mazzuca; Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Measuring Democracy. A Bridge between Scholarship and Politics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).
Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics (with Richard Snyder; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).
Authoritarianism and Democratization. Soldiers and Workers in Argentina, 1976-83 (Penn State University Press, 1998).
Edited Volumes
La calidad de la democracia: Perspectivas desde América Latina (Quito, Ecuador: CELAEP and Fundación Hans Seidel, 2013); Co-editor with Sebastián Mantilla Baca. [10]
Regimes and Democracy in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2007).
“Regimes and Democracy in Latin America,” with David Collier. Special Issue of Studies in Comparative International Development 36, 1 (Spring 2001): 3–141. [11]
Articles
"Building Blocks and Methodological Challenges: A Framework for Studying Critical Junctures," with David Collier, Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, 2017. [12]
"What is Democracy? A Reconceptualization of the Quality of Democracy." Democratization, 23, 1 (2016): 1-26. [13]
"Building Democracy … Which Democracy? Ideology and Models of Democracy in Post-Transition Latin America." Government and Opposition, 50, 3 (2015): 364-93. [14]
"State or Democracy First? Alternative Perspectives on the State-Democracy Nexus," with Sebastián L. Mazzuca. Democratization 21, 7 (2014): 1221-43. [15]
"Democratic Politics in Latin America: New Debates and Research Frontiers." Annual Review of Political Science 7 (2004): 437-62. [16]
"Tools for Qualitative Research," pp. 105–21, in Henry E. Brady and David Collier (eds.), Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards (Boulder, Col. and Berkeley, Cal.: Rowman & Littlefield and Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2004).
"Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: Evaluating Alternative Indices," with Jay Verkuilen. Comparative Political Studies 35, 1 (2002): 5-34. [17]
"The Regime Question: Theory Building in Democracy Studies." World Politics 54, 1 (2001): 119-44. [18]
"Game Theory and Comparative Politics: New Perspectives and Old Concerns." World Politics 53, 2 (2001): 173-204. [19]
"Modes of Transition and Democratization. South America and Eastern Europe in Comparative Perspective," with Carol Leff. Comparative Politics 29, 3 (1997): 343-62. [20]
"Disaggregating Political Regime: Conceptual Issues in the Study of Democratization." Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies Working Paper 228 (1996). [21]
References
- ^ https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003560
- ^ Munck CV. [1].
- ^ Gerardo L. Munck and Jay Verkuilen, “Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: Evaluating Alternative Indices,” Comparative Political Studies 35, 1 (2002): 5-34 [2] ; Gerardo L. Munck , Measuring Democracy: A Bridge Between Scholarship and Politics (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).
- ^ Gerardo L. Munck, “The Study of Politics and Democracy: Touchstones of a Research Agenda,” pp. 25-37, in Gerardo L. Munck (ed.), Regimes and Democracy in Latin America. Theories and Methods (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007); Gerardo L. Munck, “What is Democracy? A Reconceptualization of the Quality of Democracy,” Democratization 23, 1 (2016): 1-26. [3]
- ^ United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Democracy in Latin America. Toward a Citizens’ Democracy (New York and Buenos Aires: UNDP and Aguilar, Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara, 2004). [4].
- ^ OAS (Organization of American States) and UNDP, Nuestra Democracia (México: OAS, UNDP and Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2010). Spanish version: [5]; english version: [6].
- ^ Angela Hawken and Gerardo L. Munck, “A Corruption Monitoring System for Afghanistan,” UNDP Accountability and Transparency (ACT) project, Kabul, Afghanistan, July 2008.
- ^ See, respectively, UNDP Asia Pacific Human Development Report, Tackling Corruption, Transforming Lives (2008) [7] and UNDP Asia Pacific Human Development Report, Power, Voice and Rights: A Turning Point for Gender Equality in Asia and the Pacific (2010). [8].
- ^ Methods for Election Observation: A Manual for OAS Election Observation Missions (Washington, D.C.: Organization of American States, October 2007). [9].
- ^ https://www.opengovpartnership.org/former-members-of-the-international-experts-panel/
- ^ https://www.channelswimmingdover.org.uk/content/swimmer/harrison-miss-lillian-gemma
External links
- Biography on USC School of International Relations website
- Personal Website
- Gerardo Munck Papers at SSRN
- The Critical Juncture Project, coordinated by David Collier and Gerardo L. Munck [22]
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