Jonathan Hartlyn, Professor of Political Science, received his B.A. (1974) from Clark University and both an M.Phil (1976) and Ph.D. (1981) from Yale University. Before coming to UNC in 1988, he taught for seven years at Vanderbilt University. His research and teaching interests are in the comparative politics of Latin America, especially with relation to questions of democratization, political institutions, and state-society relations. He is the co-author of Latin America in the Twenty First Century:
Toward a New Socio-Political Matrix (2003), and author of The Struggle for Democratic Politics in the Dominican Republic (1998) and The Politics of Coalition Rule in Colombia (1988). He is also the co-author of "Democracy in Latin America Since 1930" in Cambridge History of Latin America, Vol. VI, Part II (Leslie Bethell, ed., 1994), and the co-editor of Latin American Political Economy (1986), The United States and Latin American in the 1990s: Beyond the Cold War (1992), and Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America, 2nd edition (1999). His articles have appeared in numerous journals and edited books, including Democratic Governance and Social Inequality (J. Tulchin with A. Brown, eds., 2002), Sultanistic Regimes (H.E. Chehabi and Juan Linz, eds. 1998), The Failure of Presidential Democracy (Juan Linz and Arturo Valenzuela, eds., 1994), Comparative Political Studies, Journal of InterAmerican Studies and World Affairs, Latin American Research Review and Studies in Comparative International Development. In 2000, he received the Johnston Award for Teaching Excellence.