Mariano Grondona

Grondona's views are considered right-wing, with a strong Catholic element, contrasting with the more liberal but still conservative ideology of other right-wing opinion leaders, such as the late Álvaro Alsogaray. Regarding Argentine foreign policy, he supports alignment with the United States.

In the mid-1960s, Grondona supported the coup that brought dictator Juan Carlos Onganía to the presidency and subsequently held public office in his government. However, he grew disappointed with the outcome and was eventually dismissed. He stated that he "had tried to make a de Gaulle of Onganía, and got a Franco instead".

In the 1970s, Grondona was a supporter of presidents Héctor José Cámpora and Juan Perón. After Perón's death during his term, Grondona aligned with the policies of Isabel Perón's Welfare Minister, José López Rega, who was the founder of the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance.

As Isabel Perón's government fell apart, Grondona advocated the participation of the military and welcomed the beginning of the National Reorganization Process in 1976. A non-authorized biography of Grondona, El Doctor, by Martín Sivak (2005), pointed out that he worked as an advisor of military junta member Brigadier Basilio Lami Dozo, on whose request he wrote a government programme titled Bases Políticas para la Reorganización Nacional (echoing Juan Bautista Alberdi's Bases and Points of Departure for the Political Organization of the Argentine Republic). ^{[3] [4] [5]}

In his program "Hora Clave" on March 16, 2003, he declared about the dictatorship in Argentina from 1976 to 1983 that "The rational behavior, in any war, is to be on the side of the winners". On the day of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's death, he declared in the same program that "If Allende had stayed in power, Chile would have probably become a communist country", as well as "I can understand that someone that has a fascist ideology, will try to live by what he considers his "principles" [...], but what really disappointed me is the fact that he had bank accounts in Switzerland. That is intolerable".

• Política y Gobierno, Buenos Aires, Columba, 1962.
• La Argentina en el Tiempo y el Mundo, Buenos Aires, Sudamericana, 1967.
• Los Dos Poderes, Buenos Aires, Emecé, 1973.
• La Construcción de la Democracia, Buenos Aires, Eudeba, 1973.
• Los Pensadores de la Libertad, Sudamericana, 1986.
• Bajo el imperio de las Ideas Morales, Buenos Aires, Sudamericana, 1988.
• Values and Development, Harvard University, Source Book, 1988.
• Toward a Theory of Development, Harvard University, Author's Workshop, 1990.
• El posliberalismo, Buenos Aires, Planeta, 1992.
• La corrupción, Buenos Aires, Planeta, 1994.
• La Argentina como vocación, Buenos Aires, Planeta, 1994.
• El mundo en clave, Buenos Aires, Planeta, 1996.
• Las condiciones culturales del desarrollo económico, Buenos Aires, Planeta, 1999.
• La realidad, Buenos Aires, Planeta, 2001.
• Estepas de una noche agitada, Buenos Aires, Planeta, 2016.