Sebastián Mazzuca

Sebastián L. Mazzuca is a professor of political science specializing in comparative politics at Johns Hopkins University. He is known for his research on state formation.

Sebastián L. Mazzuca
Born
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Known forComparative politics
state formation
Scientific career
Academic advisorsMax Weber · Guillermo O'Donnell · Tulio Halperín Donghi

Career

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, and the National University of General San Martín in Buenos Aires, he returned to the United States and began teaching at Johns Hopkins University.[1]

Research work

Mazzuca works in the field of comparative politics specializing in state formation, state building, and democracy.

Mazzuca 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.

Mazzuca's work on state formation and on economic development has been seen as a contribution to critical juncture theory.

Selected publications

Books
  • Latecomer State Formation: Political Geography and Capacity Failure in Latin America (Yale University Press, 2021).[2][3][4]
  • A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America (with Gerardo L. Munck; Cambridge University Press, 2020).[5]

Articles

References
  1. "Sebastián Mazzuca". Johns Hopkins University. 13 March 2015.
  2. Feinberg, Richard (24 August 2021). "Latecomer State Formation: Political Geography and Capacity Failure in Latin America". Foreign Affairs.
  3. Sommer, Gonzalo Romero (1 May 2022). "Latecomer State Formation: Political Geography and Capacity Failure in Latin America". Hispanic American Historical Review. 102 (2): 346–348. doi:10.1215/00182168-9653713.
  4. Collier, Ruth Berins (February 2023). "Commissioned Book Review: Sebastián Mazzuca, Latecomer State Formation: Political Geography and Capacity Failure in Latin America". Political Studies Review. 21 (1): NP25–NP26. doi:10.1177/14789299221075916.
  5. Andrade, Pablo Andrade (November 2022). "Mazzuca, Sebastian L. and Munck, Gerardo L. (2021) A Middle‐Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America , Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, UK; New York, USA; Port Melbourne, Australia), 88 pp. $20.00 pbk". Bulletin of Latin American Research. 41 (5): 845–846. doi:10.1111/blar.13430. ISSN 0261-3050.
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