Gerardo L. Munck

Gerardo L. Munck (born October 13, 1958) is a professor of political Science and international relations
at the University of Southern California.
Career.
Munck earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of New Hampshire, a Master's in Latin American Studies at Stanford University, and his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
Research.
Munck works in the field of comparative politics specializing in political regimes and democracy, methodology, and politics in Latin America.
United Nations Development Programme work.
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 work.
Munck developed a methodology to monitor elections for the Organization of American States (OAS).
Open Government Partnership work.
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.
"A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America" (with Sebastián L. Mazzuca; Cambridge University Press, 2020).
"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).
"Authoritarianism and Democratization. Soldiers and Workers in Argentina, 1976-83" (Penn State University Press, 1998).
Edited Volumes.
"La calidad de la democracia: Perspectivas desde América Latina" (Quito, Ecuador: CELAEP and Fundación Hans Seidel, 2013); Co-editor with Sebastián Mantilla Baca. 
"Regimes and Democracy in Latin America" (Oxford University Press, 2007).
“Regimes and Democracy in Latin America,” with David Collier. Special Issue of "Studies in Comparative International Development" 36, 1 (Spring 2001): 3–141. 
Articles.
"Building Blocks and Methodological Challenges: A Framework for Studying Critical Junctures," with David Collier, "Qualitative and Multi-Method Research," 2017. 
"What is Democracy? A Reconceptualization of the Quality of Democracy." "Democratization," 23, 1 (2016): 1-26. 
"Building Democracy … Which Democracy? Ideology and Models of Democracy in Post-Transition Latin America." "Government and Opposition," 50, 3 (2015): 364-93. 
"State or Democracy First? Alternative Perspectives on the State-Democracy Nexus," with Sebastián L. Mazzuca. "Democratization" 21, 7 (2014): 1221-43. 
"Democratic Politics in Latin America: New Debates and Research Frontiers." "Annual Review of Political Science" 7 (2004): 437-62. 
"Tools for Qualitative Research," pp. 105–21, in Henry E. Brady and David Collier (eds.), "Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards" (Boulder, Col. and Berkeley, Cal.: Rowman & Littlefield and Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2004).
"Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: Evaluating Alternative Indices," with Jay Verkuilen. "Comparative Political Studies" 35, 1 (2002): 5-34. 
"The Regime Question: Theory Building in Democracy Studies." "World Politics" 54, 1 (2001): 119-44. 
"Game Theory and Comparative Politics: New Perspectives and Old Concerns." "World Politics" 53, 2 (2001): 173-204. 
"Modes of Transition and Democratization. South America and Eastern Europe in Comparative Perspective," with Carol Leff. "Comparative Politics" 29, 3 (1997): 343-62. 
"Disaggregating Political Regime: Conceptual Issues in the Study of Democratization." "Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies Working Paper" 228 (1996). 