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About the Author
Guillermo O'Donnell (Buenos Aires, February 24, 1936 – Buenos Aires, November 29, 2011) was an Argentine political scientist. He qualified as a lawyer in Argentina and completed his doctorate at Yale University. He gave courses at universities in South America, Europe, and the United States (above all at the University of Notre Dame) and published many books about authoritarianism and democracy in Latin America, and also about the passage from one regime to the other. His original study of "bureaucratic authoritarianism," understood as a particular form of military regime widespread in the region between the 1960s and 1980s, made a decisive contribution to the understanding of comparative politics. Among his many works, The Quality of Democracy: Theory and Applications (2004) is especially notable. In 2006 he became the first person to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Political Science Association (IPSA).
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