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Steve Levitsky

Professor of Government

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Steve Levitsky
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    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 in Latin America. He is co-author (with Daniel Ziblatt) of How Democracies Die (Crown, 2018), 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), and Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (with Lucan Way) (Princeton University Press, 2022). He and Daniel Ziblatt are currently working on a book on the rise of (and reaction against) multiracial democracy in the United States.

Recent Publications

  • Saving Democracy
  • Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism
  • La Ley y La Trampa en América Latina: Por Qué Optar Por el Debilatimiento Institucional Puede Ser una Estrategia Política
  • The Inclusionary Turn in Latin America
  • The Left Turn and Citizenship: How Much Has Changed?
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In The News

  • Appeared on CBS News, 'Preserving American Democracy'
  • The New York Times Magazine, "Where Does American Democracy Go From Here?"
  • Quoted in the Guardian, "Republicans to field more than 100 far-right candidates this year"
  • Foreign Affairs, "America’s Coming Age of Instability"
  • NPR, "What the future holds for democracy in the U.S."
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