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Sebastián L. Mazzuca | |
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Born | |
Alma mater |
Universidad de Buenos Aires University of California, Berkeley |
Known for |
Comparative Politics State Formation State Capacity Democracy Political Economy Latin American Politics |
Scientific career | |
Academic advisors |
Max Weber Guillermo O'Donnell Tulio Halperín Donghi |
Doctoral students | Max Vejares, Julieta Casas, Sebastian Cortesi |
Website | https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/sebastian-mazzuca/ |
Sebastián L. Mazzuca is a professor of political science specializing in comparative politics at Johns Hopkins University. [1] He is known for his research on state formation, state capacity, regime change, and political economy. [2]
Mazzuca earned his MA in Economics and his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He studied with David Collier and James A. Robinson.
After teaching at Harvard University (2010-12), and the National University of General San Martín in Buenos Aires (2013-14), in 2015 he began a position as Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University. [3]
Mazzuca works in the field of comparative politics specializing in state formation, economic development, and democracy.
Mazzuca published two books with major university presses:
The book was positively reviewed in Foreign Affairs, [5] and academic journals in English and Spanish, including Governance, [6] Political Studies, [7] Latin American Research Review, [8] Política y Gobierno, [9] and Araucaria. [10]
The book argues that, in contrast to Europe, trade, not war, created the countries of Latin America. But trade created weaker countries than war. A key theoretical claim is that state formation (border demarcation) was incompatible with state building (capacity creation) in Latin America because the rush to incorporate the region into global commerce induced the emergence of countries with dysfunctional territories, i.e., combinations of subnational regions that in the long run proved economically unviable. This claim complements and refines the usual ideas that attribute all forms of economic and social backwardness in Latin America to colonial institutions. [11] [12]
Mazzuca's work on state formation and on economic development has been seen as a contribution to critical juncture theory.
The book was reviewed by the Bulletin of Latin American Research, [14] and the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. [15]
The book argues that Latin America is currently caught in a middle-quality institutional trap, combining flawed democracies and low-to-medium capacity States. Yet, contrary to conventional wisdom, the sequence of development - Latin America has democratized before building capable States - does not explain the region's quandary. States can make democracy, but so too can democracy make States. Thus, the starting point of political developments is less important than whether the State-democracy relationship is a virtuous cycle, triggering causal mechanisms that reinforce each other. However, the State-democracy interaction generates a virtuous cycle only under certain macroconditions. In Latin America, the State-democracy interaction has not generated a virtuous cycle: problems regarding the State prevent full democratization and problems of democracy prevent the development of state capacity. Moreover, multiple macroconditions provide a foundation for this distinctive pattern of State-democracy interaction. The suboptimal political equilibrium in contemporary Latin America is a robust one.
Mazzuca (2010a) is known for introducing the distinction between access to power and the exercise of power. He argues that the distinction between authoritarianism and democracy concerns the access to power dimension. In contrast, the distinction between patrimonialism and bureaucracy concerns the exercise of power dimension.
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (June 2024) |
Sebastián L. Mazzuca | |
---|---|
Born | |
Alma mater |
Universidad de Buenos Aires University of California, Berkeley |
Known for |
Comparative Politics State Formation State Capacity Democracy Political Economy Latin American Politics |
Scientific career | |
Academic advisors |
Max Weber Guillermo O'Donnell Tulio Halperín Donghi |
Doctoral students | Max Vejares, Julieta Casas, Sebastian Cortesi |
Website | https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/sebastian-mazzuca/ |
Sebastián L. Mazzuca is a professor of political science specializing in comparative politics at Johns Hopkins University. [1] He is known for his research on state formation, state capacity, regime change, and political economy. [2]
Mazzuca earned his MA in Economics and his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He studied with David Collier and James A. Robinson.
After teaching at Harvard University (2010-12), and the National University of General San Martín in Buenos Aires (2013-14), in 2015 he began a position as Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University. [3]
Mazzuca works in the field of comparative politics specializing in state formation, economic development, and democracy.
Mazzuca published two books with major university presses:
The book was positively reviewed in Foreign Affairs, [5] and academic journals in English and Spanish, including Governance, [6] Political Studies, [7] Latin American Research Review, [8] Política y Gobierno, [9] and Araucaria. [10]
The book argues that, in contrast to Europe, trade, not war, created the countries of Latin America. But trade created weaker countries than war. A key theoretical claim is that state formation (border demarcation) was incompatible with state building (capacity creation) in Latin America because the rush to incorporate the region into global commerce induced the emergence of countries with dysfunctional territories, i.e., combinations of subnational regions that in the long run proved economically unviable. This claim complements and refines the usual ideas that attribute all forms of economic and social backwardness in Latin America to colonial institutions. [11] [12]
Mazzuca's work on state formation and on economic development has been seen as a contribution to critical juncture theory.
The book was reviewed by the Bulletin of Latin American Research, [14] and the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. [15]
The book argues that Latin America is currently caught in a middle-quality institutional trap, combining flawed democracies and low-to-medium capacity States. Yet, contrary to conventional wisdom, the sequence of development - Latin America has democratized before building capable States - does not explain the region's quandary. States can make democracy, but so too can democracy make States. Thus, the starting point of political developments is less important than whether the State-democracy relationship is a virtuous cycle, triggering causal mechanisms that reinforce each other. However, the State-democracy interaction generates a virtuous cycle only under certain macroconditions. In Latin America, the State-democracy interaction has not generated a virtuous cycle: problems regarding the State prevent full democratization and problems of democracy prevent the development of state capacity. Moreover, multiple macroconditions provide a foundation for this distinctive pattern of State-democracy interaction. The suboptimal political equilibrium in contemporary Latin America is a robust one.
Mazzuca (2010a) is known for introducing the distinction between access to power and the exercise of power. He argues that the distinction between authoritarianism and democracy concerns the access to power dimension. In contrast, the distinction between patrimonialism and bureaucracy concerns the exercise of power dimension.