Steven Levitsky
Political scientist and Harvard professor
Steven Levitsky is an American political scientist who teaches government at Harvard University. He co-wrote How Democracies Die with Daniel Ziblatt.
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American Born 1968 in Brookline, United States
About Steven Levitsky
Steven Levitsky was born in 1968 and is a professor of government at Harvard University. He also holds a senior fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations, focused on democracy, and is a senior fellow at the Kettering Foundation. As a comparative political scientist, he focuses mainly on Latin America. His work looks at how parties and party systems function, how authoritarian rule and democratization unfold, and how weak or informal institutions operate. He has also written Competitive Authoritarianism and has received numerous teaching awards. With Daniel Ziblatt he co-authored How Democracies Die, a 2018 best seller. The book argues that Donald Trump and the Republican Party acted in ways that echo democratic breakdowns elsewhere and in the past. Levitsky has also written for Vox and The New York Times.