J. Samuel ValenzuelaJ. Samuel Valenzuela

Professor of Sociology
(PhD, Columbia University, 1979)
210 Hesburgh Ctr
574-631-6410
email: jvalenzu@nd.edu
http://sociology.nd.edu/faculty/all/valenzuela-samuel/index.shtml

Geographic focus: Latin America; Europe

Thematic interests: Historical and political sociology; democratization; comparative labor movements; religion; development.

Current research: Transitional justice, development and welfare state issues, and religion in Latin America.

Selected publications: Coauthor or coeditor of numerous publications, including El eslabón perdido: familia, modernización y bienestar en Chile (Taurus, 2006) [The Missing Links: Families, Modernization and Welfare Institutions in Chile]; Chile: A Country Study (Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 1994); Issues in Democratic Consolidation (University of Notre Dame Press, 1992); Military Rule in Chile: Dictatorship and Oppositions (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).  The now classic study of 19th century elections Democratización vía reforma: la expansión del sufragio en Chile (IDES, 1985) [Democratization through Reform: T he Expansion of Suffrage in Chile] will appear in an expanded second edition ( Editorial Universitaria, forthcoming). Also the author or coauthor of over 70 scholarly articles in collected works and journals including, most recently: “The Enduring Presence of Religion in Chilean Ideological Positionings and Voter Options,” Comparative Politics (October 2007).  Two chapters on religious identities and the impacts of religion on social life in Latin America are forthcoming in a coauthored book ( CIEPLAN, Santiago).

Working Papers: #336 The Enduring Presence of Religion in Chilean Ideological Positionings and Voter Options (with Timothy R. Scully, CSC, and Nicolás Somma, March 2007); #265 Class Relations and Democratization: A Reassessment of Barrington Moore's Model (March 1999); #247 La Ley Electoral de 1890 y la Democratización del Régimen Político Chileno (January 1998); #242 La Constitución de 1980 y el Inicio de la Redemocratización en Chile (September 1997); #239 Macro Co mparisons without the Pitfalls: A Protocol for Comparative Research (April 1997).