Guillermo O’Donnell

Guillermo O’Donnell is professor emeritus of political science and senior fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies of the University of Notre Dame and professor of political science at the University of San Martín, Argentina. In 2006, he was the first-ever recipient of the International Political Science Association’s Mattei Dogan Prize for lifetime achievement.

January 2007, Volume 18, Issue 1

The Perpetual Crises of Democracy

Democracy is and always will be in some kind of crisis, for it is constantly redirecting its citizens’ gaze from a more or less unsatisfactory present toward a future of still unfulfilled possibilities.