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Overview

Laurence Whitehead is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research is situated primarily within the broad field of Social Sciences, with a focus on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Development, and Law.

The scientist's work often addresses themes related to Politics and Society in Latin America, Political Conflict and Governance, Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America, Economic Sanctions and International Relations, International Relations and Foreign Policy, Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance, as well as International Development and Aid.

Whitehead's recent publications include:

  • Regional organizations and democratic conditionality: Family resemblances and shaming (2020) in International Political Science Review
  • Latin America Erupts: The Danger of Democratic Delinquency (2021) in Journal of democracy
  • Democratic Statecraft: Perspectives from an "Unsettled" Global South (2020) in The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville
  • Mixed messages about democratization in the many Mexicos (2021) in Latin American Policy
  • The Hard Truths of Brexit (2020) in Journal of democracy

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Whitehead include Lourdes Solá, Jacqueline Behrend, and Susana Berruecos García Travesí.

Publications by Whitehead frequently appear in journals such as:

  • Journal of democracy
  • Latin American Policy
  • International Political Science Review
  • The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville
  • Protest

The scope of Whitehead's work reveals a multidisciplinary approach within social sciences, engaging with complex political and social issues in Latin America, reflecting an emphasis on both theoretical and empirical perspectives.

Best Publications

  • Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Prospects for Democracy

    Guillermo A. O'donnell;Philippe C. Schmitter;Laurence Whitehead

  • Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Comparative Perspectives

    Guillermo A. O'donnell;Philippe C. Schmitter;Laurence Whitehead

  • Transitions from Authoritarian Rule

    Philippe C. Schmitter;Laurence Whitehead;Guillermo O’Donnell

  • The international dimensions of democratization : Europe and the Americas

    Laurence Whitehead

  • Democratization: Theory and Experience

    Laurence Whitehead

  • The International Dimensions of Democratization

    Laurence Whitehead

  • Three International Dimensions of Democratization

    Laurence Whitehead

  • Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Latin America

    Guillermo A. O'Donnell;Philippe C. Schmitter;Laurence Whitehead

  • Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Southern Europe

    Guillermo A. O'donnell;Philippe C. Schmitter;Laurence Whitehead

  • The Politics of Policies: Economic and Social Progress in Latin America: 2006 Report

    Maria Victoria Murillo;Ben Ross Schneider;Mercedes Iacoviello;Carlos Scartascini

  • Bolivia and the Viability of Democracy

    Laurence Whitehead

  • Rethinking Regime Change@@@Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Southern Europe@@@Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Latin America@@@Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Comparative Perspectives@@@Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies

    Nancy Bermeo;Guillermo O'Donnell;Philipe C. Schmitter;Laurence Whitehead

  • Bowling in the Bronx: the uncivil interstices between civil and political society

    Laurence Whitehead

  • Illiberal Practices: Territorial Variance within Large Federal Democracies

    Jacqueline Behrend;Laurence Whitehead

  • European Democracy Promotion in North Africa: Limits and Prospects

    Richard Gillespie;Laurence Whitehead

  • Unresolved tensions : Bolivia past and present

    John Crabtree;Laurence Whitehead

  • Political explanations of macroeconomic management: A survey

    Laurence Whitehead

  • A history of the Bolivian labour movement, 1848-1971

    Guillermo Lora;Laurence Whitehead;Christine Whitehead

  • Antidemocracy Promotion Four Strategies in Search of a Framework

    Laurence Whitehead

  • Latin America: A New Interpretation

    Laurence Whitehead

  • The Alternatives to ‘Liberal Democracy’: a Latin American Perspective

    Laurence Whitehead

  • Losing ‘the Force’? The ‘Dark Side’ of democratization after Iraq

    Laurence Whitehead

  • Towards Democratic Viability: The Bolivian Experience

    John Crabtree;Laurence Whitehead

  • Debating Cuban Exceptionalism

    Bert Hoffmann;Laurence Whitehead

  • Let the People Rule? Direct Democracy in the Twenty-First Century

    Saskia P. Ruth;Yanina Welp;Laurence Whitehead

  • Introduction: Some insights from Western social theory

    Laurence Whitehead

  • Response to Robert Mickey’s review of Illiberal Practices: Territorial Variance within Large Federal Democracies

    Jacqueline Behrend;Laurence Whitehead

  • Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America’s Deep South, 1944–72. By Robert Mickey. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. 584p. $85.00 cloth, $37.50 paper.

    Laurence Whitehead;Jacqueline Behrend

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe C. Schmitter
Philippe C. Schmitter European University Institute
Guillermo O'Donnell
Guillermo O'Donnell University of Notre Dame
Mariano Tommasi
Mariano Tommasi University of San Andrés
Maria Victoria Murillo
Maria Victoria Murillo Columbia University
Mark P. Jones
Mark P. Jones Rice University
Ernesto Stein
Ernesto Stein Inter-American Development Bank
Sebastian M. Saiegh
Sebastian M. Saiegh University of California, San Diego
Abraham F. Lowenthal
Abraham F. Lowenthal University of Southern California
Larry Diamond
Larry Diamond Stanford University

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