• Introduction


• 1: The Democratic Regime (or Political Democracy), and Citizenship as Agency


• 2: Agency: Origins, Concomitants, and Expansion.


• 3: The State: Definition, Dimensions and Historical Emergence


• 4: The Varying Referents of the State: Nation, People, Citizenry


• 5: The State as Law: Contributions and Ambivalences


• 6: The Multiple Faces of the State and its Underlying Unity.


• 7: Dialogics, Agency, and Democracy


• 8: An Overview of Latin America


• 9: Social Context, Options and Convergences


• 10: The Conundrums of Globalization and Legal Pluralism


• 11: Conclusions


• Works Cited

Dr Guillermo O'Donnell was born in Argentina. He has a Law Degree from Nacional University of Buenos Aires and a PhD in Political Science from Yale University. During the 1976-1983 Argentine military military dictatorship he left the country, first for Brazil and later for the United States. He was director of CEDES in Argentina. Former Visiting Professor and Researcher in IUPERJ and CEBRAP (both Brazil), University of California, Berkeley, and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study (Princeton) and of the Center for Advanced Research in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College and John Winant Professor at Balliol (Oxford), and Simón Bolívar Professor (Cambridge). And from 1982 to 2008 the Helen Kellogg Professor of Government, and from 1982 to 1996 the Academic Director of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies (University of Notre Dame).

One of the pioneers of democratization studies presents the culmination of a lifetime's study in the form of a far-reaching and profound analysis of the relationship between the state and democracy.