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The Juan J. Linz papers contain correspondence, personal documents, awards, photographs, notes, writings, speeches, lectures and courses notes, research files, press coverage and interviews, and printed material, dating from 1920s to 2010. The materials also include one box of materials on Columbia Student Unrest in 1968. The collection provide an insight on Juan J. Linz's family and childhood as well as his education and his work as a political scientist and a professor.
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Material is unprocessed. Assessed September 2018, collection can be made available without further intervention.
This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Juan J. Linz Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
There is a Juan Linz Archive that includes extensive press coverage of the transition to democracy in Spain, covering the years 1973 through 1987. The archive includes over 76,000 press archive is associated with the Juan March Foundation and the Universidad Juan Carlos Ill in Madrid, and can be consulted online. Linz archive in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid: UCM archives. Juan Linz Online Archive of the Spanish Transition
There is also a Linz archive with copious material from the political parties in Spain at the time of the transition, including electoral manifestos, banners, and all of electoral is housed in the archives at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
2014.2015.M107: Source of acquisition--Dr. Thomas Jeffrey Miley. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--3/19/2015. 2016.2017.M086: Source of acquisition--Curator: Sean Quimby, Professor Houchang Chehabi. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--2016-11-18.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Collection-level record describing unprocessed material made public in summer 2018 as part of the Hidden Collections initiative.
2018-09-07 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Spanish American political scientist. He was born in Germany to Spanish parents. He obtained a law degree from the University of Madrid and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He taught in Spain and elsewhere in Europe, as well as at Yale University, where he later served as professor emeritus. His analysis of authoritarianism and democratic transitions increased attention to the potential fragility of posttotalitarian and postauthoritarian democratic systems. In 1996 Linz received the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, awarded annually by the Johan Skytte Foundation at Uppsala University for "the most valuable contribution to political science." He has written several books, including (with Alfred C. Stepan) Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe (1996) and Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes (2000).
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Material related to Juan's parents.
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e.g. school records, records of lectures given, death certificate
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Documents from the moment, mostly related to belongings left in the house at El Pardo, and preparations for move to Germany. (Pilar, Juan and three cats went from El Pardo to Madrid by car; Madrid to Alicante by train; Alicante to Hamburg by boat; Hamburg to Berlin by train)
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Including photos of family house, photos of Hans and Pilar in Cologne from 1920s, Hans Linz death certificate, and materials related to members of Hans Linz family.
Material related to infancy and adolescence.
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Including dismissal from IEP and draft of response
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Including very interesting early notes on breakdowns
The correspondence archive is very incomplete, especially the letters of recommendation, which continued long after Linz's retirement.
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mostly from 1950s and 1960s, with some proposals for projects and data
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Much of the material reads like a draft for a paper, close to complete. Includes many good tables, material on bureaucratization, social structure, Madrid versus Barcelona, etc.
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General, not focused on Spain
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Including hand-written exploration of the comparison with Italy not in final version)
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This manuscript is not finished. It was to be the for a complete social history of Spain from the republic through the transition to democracy. Juan and Rocio worked on it for several there are many pages with paragraphs excerpted from source material without references given. These references were to be completed later. Please be sure not to cite this as work from Juan and Rocío, since insistent that the reference sources needed to be credited.
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Sections. Poland: Charisma, and Authoritarianism without Fascism; Hungary, Romania, etc., on comparative fascisms (Only first part published, only in German and Italian)
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published in part in Smith and Musolf, eds., Legislatures in Development
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much longer version
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English version, only published in Spanish
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with critique of Kirkpatrick, most likely misplaced
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Paper presented at Symposium on "Spain: Regional Diversity and Comparability" at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington
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Chapter 1, land and the people; chapter 2, the historical past; chapter 3, Civil war and the emergence of the Franco regime; chapter 4, the social system; chapter 5, the official institutions; chapter 6, the permanent institutions; chapter 7, ideological tendencies; chapter 8, the political process; chapter 9, The elite; chapter 10, change despite continuity (Photos)
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Correspondence with Eisenstadt which led to paper on intellectuals in Spain 16th-18th centuries. However, these notes include many ideas for the study of 20th century intellectuals.
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(Photos for the first lecture) 1. "La democracia como sistema político"; 2. "Las condiciones para la consolidación y estabilidad de la democracia"; 3. "Su mutual interacción"; 4. "Los tipos de democracia y de sisemas de partido políticos"
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(This association was founded to work alongside Spanish Refugee Aid, created by Dwight and Nancy Macdonald, among other, in 1953).
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