Steven Levitsky

Steven Levitsky

DIRECTOR, DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
DAVID ROCKEFELLER PROFESSOR OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES AND PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT
CO-CHAIR, TUESDAY SEMINAR SERIES
Steven Levitsky

Steven Levitsky is David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is also Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard.  His research focuses on democratization and authoritarianism, political parties, and weak and informal institutions, with a focus on Latin America. He is co-author (with Daniel Ziblatt) of How Democracies Die, which was a New York Times Best-Seller and was published in 25 languages.  He has written or edited 11 other books, including Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press 2003), Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (with Lucan Way) (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (with Lucan Way) (Princeton University Press, 2022), and most recently, Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point (with Daniel Ziblatt) (Crown Publishers, 2023).  He and Lucan Way are currently working on a book on global democratic resilience. 

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