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CGIS Knafel Building, Room K216
Holyoke Center, Room 850B

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1737 Cambridge Street, Rm K216
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617.495.5982
Fax: 617.384.5268
Email: jorge_dominguez@harvard.edu

Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 11:15-12:00 during the Fall semester, or by appointment.

Research Papers | Comparative Latin America

Cuba - Mexico - International LA

"Explaining Latin America’s Lagging Development in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: Growth Strategies, Inequality, and Economic Crises," in Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States, ed. Francis Fukuyama (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008): 72-96

"Three Decades since the Start of the Democratic Transitions," in Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin American, 3rd Edition, eds. Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2008): 323-352, 398-400

"International Cooperation in Latin America: The Design of Regional Institutions by Slow Accretion," in Crafting Cooperation: Regional International Institutions in Comparative Perspective, eds. Amitav Acharya and Alastair Iain Johnston (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007): 83-128

"Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America: Taking Stock of the 1900s," in Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin American, 2nd Edition, eds. Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2003): 351-381, 437-439

"The Perfect Dictatorship? Comparing Authoritarian Rule in South Korea and in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico," 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (August 29-September 1, 2002): 24 pp.

"Free Politics and Free Markets in Latin America," Journal of Democracy, vol. 9, no. 4 (October 1998): 70-84. Translated as "Política libre y mercados libres en América Latina," Escenarios, vol. 5, no. 11 (Fall 2001): 14-29. Reprinted in The Global Divergence of Democracies, eds. Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001): 245-259

"Samuel Huntington and the Latin American State," in The Other Mirror: Grand Theory through the Lens of Latin America, eds. Miguel Angel Centeno and Fernando López-Alves (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001): 219-239. (An earlier version was published as "El orden político en las sociedades en cambio: Samuel Huntington y el Estado latinoamericano," Este País, no. 90 (September 1998): 2-15.)

"Democratic Transitions in Central America and Panama," in Democratic Transitions in Central America, eds. Jorge I. Domínguez and Marc Lindenberg (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997): 1-31

"Technopols: Ideas and Leaders in Freeing Politics and Markets in Latin America in the 1990s," in Technopols: Freeing Politics and Markets in Latin America in the 1990s, ed. Jorge I. Domínguez (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997): 1-48

"Latin America's Crisis of Representation," Foreign Affairs, vol. 76, no. 1 (January-February 1997): 100-113

"The Caribbean Question: Why Has Liberal Democracy (Surprisingly) Flourished?," in Democracy in the Caribbean: Political, Economic, and Social Perspectives, eds. Jorge I. Domínguez, Robert A. Pastor, and R. DeLisle Worrell (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993): 1-25

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