Comparative Politics

The field of Comparative Politics at Harvard is the study of cross- and sub-national differences in these areas:

  • Development
  • Inequality
  • The state
  • Political institutions
  • Ethnic-religious politics.

Our diverse faculty has expertise in Africa, Eastern and Western Europe, East and South Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. In short, it represents all major theoretical and methodological approaches in the field. Harvard’s well-endowed international and regional centers also offer extensive institutional ties to research communities across the globe as well.


Department Faculty

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Alisha C. Holland

Professor of Government
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Chase H. Harrison

Senior Preceptor
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Daniel Ziblatt

Eaton Professor of the Science of Government
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Dustin Tingley

Professor of Government

Elizabeth J. Perry

Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government
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Feyaad Allie

Postdoctoral Fellow

Frances Hagopian

Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government
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Gary King

Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor

Grzegorz Ekiert

Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government

Jeffry Frieden

Stanfield Professor of International Peace
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Mashail Malik

Assistant Professor of Government
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Melani Cammett

Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs

Nara Dillon

Senior Lecturer on Government

Peter A. Hall

Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies
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Peter Buisseret

Assistant Professor of Government
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Pia Raffler

Assistant Professor of Government
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Stephen Peter Rosen

Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs
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Steven Levitsky

David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies

Theda Skocpol

Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology
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Timothy Colton

Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies
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Torben Iversen

Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy

Yuhua Wang

Professor of Government
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