Retired Professor, University of São Paulo

Lourdes Sola, Ph.D in Politics, University of Oxford, has retired as professor of the Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo. Currently she is in the Executive Board of the newly established Center for Public Policy , University of São Paulo, (NPP), where she co-ordinates a major research project on the Comparative Politics of Economic Transformation in Emerging Market Democracies of Latin America.

She is currently the President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and was one of the founding members of the IPSA Research Group 13, “Democratization in Regional Perspective”, established since 1987. She was elected and subsequently reelected president of the Brazilian Political Science Association, (ABCP) 1996-1998 and 1998-2000.

During year 2002 she was Holder of the “Rio Branco Chair for Brazilian Studies” at University of California, Berkeley. She was among the first social scientists elected to the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2000) and was awarded the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit (Ordem do Mérito Científico) in 2001, by the Ministry of Science and Technology. She was visiting scholar at other universities in the US and Europe, respectively, Kellog Institute, University of Notre Dame (1990) and St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University (1989).

She won a award sponsored by Ford Foundation of Brazil (1988-1989) to participate as a Visiting Fellow in the newly established Institute of Advanced Study, University of São Paulo, (IEA-1988-89). From 1987-1993 she held the position of co-chair of the Multidisciplinary Group Politics and Economics, established at the Institute of Advanced Study, in charge of the project, The Social and Political Matrix of Inflation in Democratizing Latin America. As Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, her other activities included the Coordination (with professor Paul Singer) of the International Seminar Democratizing Economics, Theory and Praxis, promoted by the Institute and the Wilson Centre in Washington, in July 1987. In 1992-3, as part of the Agreement between the University of São Paulo and the United Nations Social Research Institute of Development of Geneva (UNSRID) she was in charge of the Multidisciplinary Seminar, "Lessons of the 1980's in Brazil. What have we Learned?".

Comparative politics and the political economy of democratization are the major fields to which most of her research and teaching activities have been oriented to. Her recent publications are focused mostly on the links between economic transformation and democratization in Latin America and beyond.

She is presently Associate Editor of Revista de Economia Política – Journal of Political Economy, a bilingual journal published in São Paulo, since 1988 and is in the Board of the Brazilian Journal of Political Science.

Among non-academic positions, there are four worth mentioning

1) She was one of the six members of the Council of Ethics in Public Administration, accountable to the Brazilian Presidency. The Council was created in May 1998 by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso was given the task to write and implement a Code of Ethics for High Administration, eventually launched in 2000 . This position was held until May 2003.

2) From 1997 to 1998 she was member of the Council for State Reform, under the aegis of
the Ministry of Administration and State Reform (Minister Bresser Pereira).

3) She was member of the Council for Women's Rights (Conselho da Condição Feminina) created in the wake of democratization in Brazil ,by Governor of the Stateof São Paulo, Franco Montoro's (1984-6)

4) From 2002 to 2007 she was the Director of a Program for Empowerment and Job Training for Youth, Targetted to Brazil´s poorest municipalities” (Programa de Apoio à Capacitação Solidária), established by the NGO Comunitas.

As a Consultant

She worked for Oxford Analytica (Oxford and São Paulo, 1989-1991) and Tendências Consultoria Integrada (São Paulo –2000-2003).

From February 2003 her own firm – Polis Analytica - joined MB Associados, also in São Paulo

A selection of books and articles

in Portuguese BOOKS

1- Idéias Econômicas, Decisões Políticas. São Paulo: Editora da USP- EDUSP, 1998.

2- Estado, Mercado, Democracia. Política e Economia Comparada – São Paulo: Paz e Terra, 1992.

3 - As editor, co-editor, and author of articles in the following books:
1. with Eduardo Kugelmas and Laurence Whitehead, Banco Central, Autoridade Política e Democratização. Um Equilíbrio Delicado, Rio de Janeiro: Editora da FGV (2002)
2. with Luis Carlos Bresser Pereira e Jorge Wilheim, Sociedade e Estado em Transformação, São Paulo- Editora da Universidade do Estado de São Paulo- UNESP (2001)
3. with Leda Paulani, Lições da Década Perdida- São Paulo: Editora da Universidade de São Paulo – EDUSP - 1995
4. O Estado da Transição. Política e Economia na Nova República, São Paulo: Vértice, 1987

• Forthcoming , with Eduardo Kugelmas and Maria Rita Loureiro , “ Democratização e Agenda Econômica. As bases políticas da transformação”, Rio de Janeiro, Editora da FGV.

In English- a selection

1. with Laurence Whitehead, eds. Statecrafing Monetary Authority. Democratization and Financial Order in Brazil, Oxford: Center for Brazilian Studies, 2006.

2. “Central Banking, Democratic Governance and the Quality of Democracy” in Statecrafing Monetary Authority. Democratization and Financial Order in Brazil, op.cit. 143-205

3. with E. Kugelmas, “Crafting Economic Stabilization: political discretion and technical innovation in the implementation of the Real Plan”, in Statecrafing
Monetary Authority op.cit. 85-117

4. “Financial Credibility, legitimacy and political discretion; the Lula da Silva government”, in Statecrafing Monetary Authority, pp.237-268

5. “Central Banking, Democratic Governance and Political Authority. The case of Brazil in Regional Perspective”, in Leonardo Burlamaqui, Ana Celia Castro, Ha Joon Chang, eds. Institutions and the Role of the State , London: Elgar , 2000, p.235-265

6. with Christopher Garman and Moisés Marques, “Central Bank Reform and Overcoming the Problem of Moral Hazard : the case of Brazil” in Revista de Economia Política – Journal of Political Economy, São Paulo, v.21,n.3 , p40-64, 2001

7. “ The State, Structural Reform and Democratization in Brazil” in William Smith, Carlos Acuña and Eduardo Gamarra, Democracy, Markets and Structural Reform in Latin America, New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 1993.

8. “Heterodox Shock in Brazil. “Técnicos”, Politicians and Democracy, Journal of Latin American Studies, Cambridge University Press, vol.23, Part 1, Frebruary 1991, pp. 163-197

Spanish and French: a selection

1. "Choque Heterodoxo y Transición Política Sin Ruptura. Un enfoque Transdisciplinario, in Desarrollo Económico. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social, (Buenos Aires) vol.28, n. 112, januarymarch (1989), pp.483-523

2. “La alta inflación y la transición democrática “sin ruptura. El tratamiento por choque heterodoxo en Brasil” in Natalio Botana e Peter Waldmann , eds. El impacto de la inflación en la sociedad y en la política, Buenos Aires: Editorial Tesis- Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, (1988) pp. 151-204.

3. “Governabilidad, Regimen Fiscal y Democratización", Desarrollo Económico, vol.33, 132, enero-marzo 1994., pp 483-513

4. “Transición Electoral, Credibilidad Financiera y Legitimidad Política: Dilemas y Desafios del Gobierno Lula” , in Anuario Internacional de la Fundació CIDOB (Centro Internacional de Documentación de Barcelona) special issue on BRASIL, Barcelona, 2004 , pp 291-309

5. “Democratización, Estado e Integración a la Economia Global. Cual es el Lugar de la Política Democrática? ” in Programa de Las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo, ed., La Democracia en América Latina. Hacia una Democracia de Ciudadanos y Ciudadanas, Buenos Aires: Aguilar e Taurus, 2004, pp. 215-219

6. con Eduardo Kugelmas, “La Construcción del Federalismo Democrático en Brasil” in Revista de Economia, Información Comercial Española, (ICE) , Ministerio de Economia, special issue Brasil, pp.105-122

7. “Féderalisme, stabilisation monétaire et démocratisation au Brésil”, with Eduardo Kugelmas, in Critique Internationale, dossier sur l’Économie Politique du Fédéralisme, # 11, Avril 2001, pp 133-144.