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Laurence Whitehead

Emeritus Fellow; Senior Research Associate

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Laurence Whitehead is a Senior Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford University, and until 2015 was Senior Fellow of the College.  During 2005/6 he served as Acting Warden there.  In 2011/2 he served as Senior Proctor of the University.  

Recent books

  • Latin America: A New Interpretation, (Palgrave, 2006 second revised updated edition 2010) 
  • Democratization: Theory and Experience (OUP, 2002).  

Recent edited publications

  • Let the People Rule?  Direct Democracy in the 21st Century  (ECPR Studies in European Political Science, 2017)  edited jointly with Saskia Ruth and Yanina Welp
  • Illiberal Practices:Territorial Variance with in Large Federal Democracies ( Johns Hopkins UP, 2016) which he co-edited with Jacqueline Behrend 
  • The Obama Administration and the Americas: Shifting the Balance (Brookings Press, 2010 ) which he produced jointly with Abraham F. Lowenthal and Theodore J. Piccone
  • Democratization in America: A Comparative –Historical Analysis (Johns Hopkins UP, 2009) which he edited jointly with Desmond King, Robert C. Liebermen, and Gretchen Ritter
  • Citizen Security in Latin America (Notre Dame University Press, 2009), (jointly with Marcelo Bergman)  

Recent articles

  • “International Democracy Promotion  as a  Political Ideology: Upsurge and Retreat” in The Journal of Political Ideologies  February 2015
  •  “Anti democracy Promotion: Four Strategies in Search of a Framework" Taiwan Journal of Democracy December 2014 
  •  “Enlivening” the Concept of Democratisation: The Biological Metaphor” in Perspectives on Politics, July 2011
  • “Losing ‘the Force’? The Dark Side of democratization after Iraq“ in  Democratization, April 2009
  • “The Crash of “08” in the Journal of Democracy, January 2010 . 

He is editor of an Oxford University Press series, ‘Studies in Democratization’ and President of the Conseil Scientifique of the Institut des Ameriques in Paris, and belongs to the steering committee of the Red Eurolatinoamericana de Gobernabilidad para el Desarrollo.

Contact Information

Email: Laurence.whitehead@nuffield.ox.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)1865 278568