Steven Levitsky

Steven Levitsky
David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies

Steven Levitsky is David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government. He is also Director of Harvard’s 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 12 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 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 democratic resilience across the world.


Contact
617/495-9997
levitsky@gov.harvard.edu

1737 Cambridge Street
CGIS Knafel Building, Room 204


Subfields
Comparative Politics

Academic Interests
Democracy | Institutions | Parties, Campaigns & Elections

Research Methods
Historical Methods | Qualitative Methods

Geographic Regions of Study
Latin America