Name Juan Linz | Role Political Scientist | |
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada Books Problems of democrati, Totalitarian and Authoritar, Democracy in Developi, Crafting State‑Nations: India and, Politics in Developing Countries Similar People Alfred Stepan, Seymour Martin Lipset, Larry Diamond, Jose Ramon Montero, Leonardo Morlino | ||
Juan Linz
Juan José Linz (24 December 1926 – 1 October 2013) was a Spanish sociologist and political scientist. He was Sterling Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science at Yale University and an honorary member of the Scientific Council at the Juan March Institute. He is best known for his theories on totalitarian and authoritarian systems of government.
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Linz was born in Bonn, Germany. In addition to his work on systems of government, he did extensive research on the breakdowns of democracy and the transition back to a democratic regime. He is the author of many works on the subject, including Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, co-authored with Alfred Stepan), his crowning work Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes (Rienner, 2000) and his influential essay 'The Perils of Presidentialism'.
Works
From a description of Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes:
Later life
Linz received the Prince of Asturias Award of Social Sciences (1987), the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (1996) and the Karl Deutsch Award (2003).
He died, aged 86, in New Haven, Connecticut.
