They explain the poor quality of Latin American democracies in terms of various factors, including the legacy of state formation in the nineteenth century.
[18] Munck collaborated with Dante Caputo and Guillermo O'Donnell in the preparation of the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) report Democracy in Latin America.
[19] He also worked with Dante Caputo on a second regional report on democracy in Latin America prepared by the UNDP and the Organization of American States (OAS), Nuestra democracia (2010).
[23] Munck was a member of the inaugural International Experts Panel of the Open Government Partnership.
[24] Munck was appointed as a member of the High-Level Expert Commission which supports the Human Rights, Democracy and Equality Program, of the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI).
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Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies: Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science, co-editor with David Collier (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).
A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America (with Sebastián L. Mazzuca; Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics (with Richard Snyder; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).
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[19] “Comparative Politics at a Crossroad: Problems, Opportunities and Prospects from the North and South,” with Richard Snyder.
[21] Archived 2019-08-13 at the Wayback Machine "Building Blocks and Methodological Challenges: A Framework for Studying Critical Junctures," with David Collier, Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 15, 1 (2017).
), Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, Boulder, Col. and Berkeley, Cal.
[30] Archived 2018-01-28 at the Wayback Machine "Disaggregating Political Regime: Conceptual Issues in the Study of Democratization."