Steven Levitsky, (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, 1999) is Professor of Government at Harvard University. His fields of interest are comparative and Latin American politics, with a focus on political regimes and regime change, parties and party change, as well as weak and informal institutions. He is author of "Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective" (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003) and co-editor of "Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness" (Penn State Univ. Press, 2005) and "Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America" (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 2006). Professor Levitsky is currently finishing a book (with Lucan A. Way) on the emergence and evolution of competitive authoritarian regimes in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the post-communist countries. He is also working on an edited volume (with Kenneth Roberts) on the rise of the Left in contemporary Latin America.
Professor Levitsky's undergraduate courses include: Foundations of Comparative Politics (GOV 20), and Comparative Politics of Latin America (GOV 1295). His graduate courses include: Regimes and Regime Change (GOV 2136) and Comparative Politics of Latin America (GOV 2131).
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