Presidentialism, Party Politics and the Travails of Democracy

When Kellogg's first directors, REV. ERNEST P. BARTELL, CSC, and GUILLERMO O'DONNELL began looking to recruit the institute's first postdoctoral fellow in 1982, they called Alfred Stepan, who was then professor of political science at Yale.

They were looking for a top-flight postdoctoral fellow for the newly formed institute. Stepan suggested a young scholar from Stanford who was studying Brazil's catholic church, and whom he had taught as an undergraduate at Yale.

This year, 25 years after he arrived at the Kellogg Institute and after serving two five-year terms as director, SCOTT MAINWARING begins a two-year leave to pursue his research.

Mainwaring has been a prolific and influential scholar, as evidenced by his recent ranking as the 15th most-cited political scientist among PhD recipients, 1980-1984. (See related article, page 3) Furthermore, his 1993 article in Comparative Political Studies ranks as the third most-cited article ever in the journal.

"As director of the Kellogg institute, Scott Mainwaring has combined world-class scholarship with visionary leadership," said University of Notre Dame president JOHN I. JENKINS.

"His own most recent scholarship on democratization in the Andes complements superbly the widely recognized ongoing work of the institute in religion and politics, social policy, economic growth and development, and institution building.

"Kellogg is recognized around the world as a premier center for the comparative study of democracy and development. I am deeply grateful to him."