themes is the interaction between problems of democracy, "problems linked to the attainment, maintenance, and improvement of democracy," and problems for democracy, "problems regarding the development and strengthening of civil and social rights that citizens expect or hope democracies will deliver." Munck argues that "problems of democracy have prevented the elimination of problems for democracy, and problems for democracy block the possibility of reducing problems of democracy." Work with International Organizations United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Munck collaborated with Dante Caputo and Guillermo O'Donnell in the preparation of the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) report Democracy in Latin America. Toward a Citizens’ Democracy (2004). He also worked with Dante Caputo on a second regional report on democracy in Latin America prepared by the UNDP and the Organization of American States (OAS), Nuestra democracia (2010). With the UNDP, he elaborated a system to monitor corruption in Afghanistan, and wrote background papers for the UNDP regional reports on Asia and the Pacific on corruption and gender equality. Organization of American States (OAS) Munck developed a methodology to monitor elections for the Organization of American States (OAS). Open Government Partnership (OGP) Munck was a member of the inaugural International Experts Panel of the Open Government Partnership. Personal life Munck's grandmother is swimmer Lilian Harrison. His brother is sociologist Ronaldo Munck. Selected publications Books and Edited Volumes Latin American Politics and Society: A Comparative and Historical Analysis (with J.P. Luna; Cambridge University Press, 2022). Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies: Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science, co-editor with David Collier (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America (with Sebastián L. Mazzuca; Cambridge University Press, 2020). La calidad de la democracia: Perspectivas desde América Latina, co-editor with Sebastián Mantilla Baca (Quito, Ecuador: CELAEP and Fundación Hans Seidel, 2013). Measuring Democracy: A Bridge between Scholarship and Politics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics (with Richard Snyder; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). Regimes and Democracy in Latin America, editor (Oxford University Press, 2007). “Regimes and Democracy in Latin America”, co-editor with David Collier. Special Issue of Studies in Comparative International Development 36, 1 (Spring 2001): 3–141. Authoritarianism and Democratization: Soldiers and Workers in Argentina, 1976-83 (Penn State University Press, 1998). Articles "Introduction: Tradition and Innovation in Critical Juncture Research," pp. 1–29, in David Collier and Munck (eds.), Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies: Insights