Guillermo A. O’Donnell - Bureaucratic Authoritarianism: Argentina, 1966–1973, in Comparative Perspective

Sarah Hirschman, Helio Jaguaribe, Abraham Lowenthal, Cndido Mendes, Oscar Oszlak, Adam Przeworski, Philippe Schmitter, the late Kalman Silvert, and Francisco Weffort. I want to express my special gratitude to David Apter, Robert Dahl, and Alfred Stepan.[*] I wish also to acknowledge the many valuable contributions I received at the various places through which I wandered as a result of events in my country and in my personal life: the Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES) in Buenos Aires, the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, the University of Michigan, the Instituto Universitario de Pesquisas de Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ) and, most recently, the Helen Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame. At various stages I received financial support from Yale's Office for Advanced Political Studies, the Danforth Foundation, the Council for Scientific and Technological Research in Argentina, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and for the preparation of the present version, from the Helen Kellogg Institute. Support was also provided by CEDES, with funding supplied by institutional subsidies from the Ford Foundation and Sweden's SAREC. I extend my deepest gratitude to the persons and institutions involved. persons and institutions involved.

James McGuire has been much more than the translator of a difficult text by a difficult author; with exceptional dedication and talent, he made me aware of more than a few flaws in the Spanish version. Having struggled with other English translations of my very Hispanic writing, I was very fortunate that Grant Barnes, then of the University of California Press, invited an excellent scholar like McGuire to undertake this one.

To my loves, past and present, my apologies for the more than a few moments that this book stole from us, and my thanks for their support.

One final word. Interviews with many of the most important actors of the period were an indispensable source for this book, since they enabled me to understand the significance of certain episodes and to

[*] This community of colleagues and friends includes William Smith, who arrived in Argentina in 1974 to do research toward his doctoral dissertation at Stanford University. By that time I had basically completed my research and was struggling with the first draft of this book. Since Smith's project focused on the same period as my own, and since our approaches were quite similar, we engaged in frequent and fruitful discussions. When Smith returned to the United States, we agreed to safeguard the identity of each text by refraining from reading the other's until both had been completed. The product of Smith's research is "Crisis of the State and Military-Authoritarian Rule in Argentina, 19661973" (Ph.D. diss., Stanford University, 1980). This work is an excellent contribution to the study of Argentina and to the theory of authoritarian forms of rule. In spite of the coincidences, Smith and I gave different emphases to our texts, making them much more complementary than overlapping.