Publications

Laurence Whitehead: Annual Report 2005/06

Laurence Whitehead (Official Fellow= in Politics) served as Acting Warden for the year, and therefore devoted a considerable portion of his time to questions of college and university administration. However, he a= lso continued with a series of writing and research commitments, notably on E-U Latin American relations, and on Comparative Democratization, as well as continuing his longstanding work on the politics of Latin America (notably Bolivia, and Mexico, both of which he visited during the year).

&nb= sp; On EU-Latin American relations he was the UK co-ordinator helping with the Thi= rd Annual Conference of the Red Eurolatinoamericano de Gobernabilidad para el Desarrollo, held in Hamburg in December 2006. (He also took on the lead rol= e in organising the Fourth Conference, to be held in Nuffield in December 2007). In February 2007 he was invited to represent the Vice Chancellor at the conference of the Rectors of European and Latin American Universities, held in Lei= den, and he played an active part in the drafting of the Leiden Declaration which was submitted to the Heads of State Summit in Vienna. In April he chaired the European-Latin American section of the Latin American Studies Association conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He also delivered a keynote speech= at a Eurolatinamerican forum in Lis= bon.

&nb= sp; On Comparative Democratization he collaborated with Desmond King to finalise the manuscript of their forthcoming edit= ed volume on the Democratization of the USA. Also, in his capacity as Chair of Research Committee 13 of the International Political Science Association, he organised four panels on “Neglected issues in Comparative Democratization” for the 20^th Congress in Fukuoka, Japan in July 2006. In association = with that trip he gave the opening keynote address at an International Conferenc= e on Legislatures and Parliaments in the 21^st century, in Soochow University, organised by the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy.

&nb= sp; He took part in two UNDP sponsored visits to B= olivia (November 2005 and August 2006), and organised a two-day conference in Nuffield College concerning Bolivia’s new political direction (February 2006).&n= bsp; The results of this work are taking shape as edited volume under his co-direction.

&nb= sp; The most important activity of the Centre for Mexican Studies, which he directs, was as international seminar on “Close Fought Elections”, held = in conjuction with the Instituto Federal Electoral and the Tribunal Electoral,= in Mexico City in Ma= rch 2006. The comparative academic work gener= ated by this event is appearing in English as a special issue of the Taiwan Journal of Democracy which = he edited. The full proceedings have also been issued in Spanish by the IFE. The Centre also co-sponsored a res= earch project on horizontal inequalities between Mexican Municipalities, for the Ministry of Social Development, and this was awarded the premio nacional of the Colegio Nacional de Economistas.<= /p>

&nb= sp; In April 2006 he delivered a keynote address to the 19^th Conference= of Latin American Finance Ministers and Central Bankers in Washington DC, dealing with the political economy of the exceptionally crowded electoral calendar of 2006. He also gav= e the opening address at a Univ= ersity of Toronto conferen= ce on “learning to Lose” in the course of the same visit.

&nb= sp; This was an unusually productive year in terms of academic publications, mainly because a series of long running prior activities came to fruition just whe= n he was diverted into College administration.&= nbsp; But a number of other projects are currently developing and he has plenty of research to turn back to now that the Acting Wardenship has reach= ed its termination.

Publications

Laurence Whitehead, Latin America: A New Interpretation, Palgrave, New York, 2006) pp.300.

Laurence Whitehead, (Guest editor) = ‘Closely Fought Elections and the Institutionalization of Democracy’, a special issue of the Taiwan Journal of Demo= cracy, Vol. 2, Number 1, July 2006 pp. 1-12.

Laurence Whitehead, Patricia Justin= o, and Julie Litchfield, ‘Inequality in Latin American: Dimensions and processes’, pp.15-48 in Ricardo Gottschalk and Patricia Justino, (eds.) Overcoming Inequality in Latin America: issues and challenges for the twenty-first century (Routledge, 2006).

Lourdes= Sola and Laurence Whitehead (editors) Statecrafting Monetary Authority: Democracy and Financial Order in <= st1:country-region w:st=3D"on">Brazil, (Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of = Oxford, 2006). (Joint introduction pp.1= -12 chapter one pp. 13 – 36 postscript, pp.359-67).

Laurence Whitehead, “The Shif= ting Foundations of Economic Liberalism in Latin American Public Policy” pp.245-264 in Valpy Fitzgerald and Rosemary Thorp (eds.) Economic Doctrines in Latin America: Origins Embedding and Evolutio= n, (Palgrave, New York, 2005).

Laurence Whitehead “Democrati= zation and Human Rights in the Americas: Should the Jury Still be Out?”, pp.161-184 in Louise Fawcett and Moni= ca Serrano, Regionalism and Governance= in the Americas, (Palgrave, New York, 2005).

Laurence Whitehead, “Some sta= tes of Asia compared from afar” pp.162-181 in Richard Boyd and Tak-Wing Ngo,= State Making in Asia, (Routledge, = 2006).

Laurence Whitehead, Manuel Gued&aac= ute;n, Joaquín Villalobos, and Miguel Cruz, Perfil de Gobernabilidad de El Salvador, (CICODE, Universidad de Alcalá, 2005).

R= afael Fernandez de Castro, Laurence Whitehead, Natalia Saltalamacchia (eds.), ¿Somos Especiales? Las Relaciones de Mexico y Gran Bretaña con Estados Unidos: Una Vision Comparada, (Porrúa, Mexico City, 2006).

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