Gerardo L. Munck

Gerardo L. Munck (born October 13, 1958) Argentine by birth, is a professor of international relations for the School of International Relations of the University of Southern California (USC). His brother, Ronaldo Munck, is a well-known sociologist living in Ireland.

Munck earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of New Hampshire, a Master's in Latin American Studies at Stanford University, and his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

Munck works in the field of comparative politics and is a specialist on political regimes and democracy, methodology (with an emphasis on measurement), and politics in Latin America.

He also does research on the intellectual history of the field of comparative politics and on the conditions for the production of knowledge about the social world.

Munck is active in various public initiatives in the fields of democratic governance and of transparency and accountability.

He collaborated with Dante Caputo and Guillermo O'Donnell in the preparation of the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) report Democracy in Latin America. Toward a Citizens’ Democracy (2004). He developed a methodology to monitor elections for the OAS. And he worked with Dante Caputo on a second regional report on democracy in Latin America prepared by the UNDP and the Organization of American States (OAS), Nuestra democracia (2010).

He also worked with the UNDP on a system to monitor corruption in Afghanistan, and wrote background papers for the UNDP regional reports on Asia and the Pacific on corruption and gender equality.

He is currently a member of the International Expert Panel of the Open Government Partnership (OGP).

• La calidad de la democracia: Perspectivas desde América Latina (Quito, Ecuador: CELAEP and Fundación Hans Seidel, 2013); Co-editor with Sebastián Mantilla Baca. [1]
• Measuring Democracy. A Bridge between Scholarship and Politics (Johns Hopkins, 2009)
• Regimes and Democracy in Latin America (Oxford, 2007)
• Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics (with Richard Snyder; Johns Hopkins, 2007)
• Authoritarianism and Democratization. Soldiers and Workers in Argentina, 1976-83 (Penn State, 1998)