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Moira MacKinnon



Email address: mmackinn.AT.dss.ucsd.edu

MA & BA : Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Areas of Specialization : Political Sociology, Comparative Historical Sociology, Democracy, Labor, Area Studies (Latin America)

Dissertation Topic: Strong and Weak Institutionalization, The Chilean-Argentine Paradox

Biography
Has a BA in Sociology and an MA in Social Science Research. Advanced to candidacy in 2005. Her MA thesis was published as a book in 2002: Los Años Formativos del Partido Peronista (1946-1950), Instituto Di Tella-Siglo Veintiuno de Argentina Editores.

In her dissertation, she compares a crucial moment of institutional origin in order to identify the factors that drive weak and strong processes of institutionalization in democracies. Specifically, she researches the process of institutionalization of labor through legislation and participation in political parties in Argentina and Chile in the first half of the twentieth century.

Publications

Books

2002- Los Años Formativos del Partido Peronista (1946-1950) , Instituto Di Tella-Siglo Veintiuno de Argentina Editores.

1998- Populismo y Neopopulismo en América Latina. El Problema de la Cenicienta, Edited by Moira B. Mackinnon and Mario A. Petrone (Introductory chapter: Los Complejos de la Cenicienta). Publishers: EUDEBA (Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires), Buenos Aires, 1998. Reprinted 1999.

Articles

2003- “El Protagonismo del Movimiento Obrero Tucumano en la Formación del Partido Peronista (1945-1950)” en Formas Tempranas de Organización Obrera, Proyecto Actores y Coaliciones en la Integración Latinoamericana. Instituto Torcuato Di Tella-Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (UN Development Program), La Crujía, Buenos Aires.

1996- “Sobre los Orígenes del Partido Peronista. Notas Introducto­rias" (On the Origins of the Peronist Party, Introductory Notes) published in Representacio­nes Inconclu­sas, las Clases, los Actores y los Discursos de la Memoria, 1914-1946". Editors: Waldo Ansaldi, Alfredro Pucciarelli, José Villarruel. Editorial Biblos, Buenos Aires.

1995-“La Primavera de los Pueblos - La Movilización Popular en las Provincias más Tradicionales en los Orígenes del Peronismo" (The People's Spring, Popular Mobilization in the Traditional Provinces in the Origins of Peronism) published in the Journal "Estudios Sociales", No. 10, Summer 1996


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