Philippe C. Schmitter

Philippe C. Schmitter ( born November 19, 1936 in Washington, DC) is an American political scientist.

Philippe C. Schmitter et al studied the subjects of international relations, history and political economy at Dartmouth College ( 1954-1957 ), at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( 1957-1958 ) and at the University of Geneva ( 1959-1961 ). He earned his doctorate in 1968 at the University of California with the work Development and Interest Politics in Brazil: 1930-1965. From 1975 to 1984 he taught as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. From 1985 to 1998 he taught at Stanford University. Of 2000, Schmitter a professor at the European University Institute in Florence on. There he taught since 2005 as a professor. Schmitter 2009 received the prestigious Skytteanska priset.

His research interests are comparative politics, regional integration in Western Europe and in Latin America and the Transition in Southern Europe and Latin America.

Writings

Monographs

• How to democratize the European Union ... and why bother? , Lanham 2000, ISBN 0-8476-9905-6.
• Together with Guillermo O'Donnell Transitions from authoritarian rule. Tentative conclusions about uncertain democracies, 4th revised edition, Baltimore, 1993, ISBN 0-8018-2682-9.
• Interest conflict and political change in Brazil, Stanford, 1971, ISBN 0-8047-0733-2.

Editorial Boards

• Military rule in Latin America. Function, Consequences and perspectives, Beverly Hills 1973, ISBN 0-8039-0242-5.