Juan José Linz Storch de Gracia (24 December 1926 – 1 October 2013) was a German-born Spanish sociologist and political scientist specializing in comparative...

regimes" or "competitive authoritarian" states. The political scientist Juan Linz, in an influential 1964 work, An Authoritarian Regime: Spain, defined...

and switches to a different party at the next election. Critics such as Juan Linz, argue that in such cases of gridlock, presidential systems do not offer...

sultanism is not limited to Muslim or Middle Eastern societies. In 1996, Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan listed the clearest examples of sultanism as "Haiti...

"religions manipulated by man" and "anti-religions". Yale political scientist Juan Linz and others have noted that the secularization of the twentieth century...

in Multi-national Societies (2010) co-authored with Alfred Stepan and Juan Linz. Democratic Politics - 1 (2006) Chief Advisor with Suhas Palshikar, published...

typologies. Modern typology of autocratic regimes originates from the work of Juan Linz in the mid-20th century, when his division of democracy, authoritarianism...

Columbia University in 1969 where his dissertation was supervised by Juan José Linz. He subsequently taught at Yale University, before being appointed Dean...

Marshall, Reinhard Bendix, Otto Kirchheimer, Seymour Martin Lipset, Juan Linz, Hans Daalder, Mattei Dogan, S.N. Eisenstadt, Harry Eckstein, and Dankwart...

are leveled, democracy levels would further increase. Larry Diamond and Juan Linz, who worked with Lipset in the book, Democracy in Developing Countries:...