#  Steve Levitsky 

 



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## [*Curriculum Vitae*](/file_url/110)

Steven Levitsky is David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government and Director of the [David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies](https://drclas.harvard.edu) at Harvard. He is Senior Fellow at the Kettering Foundation and a Senior Democracy Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. 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 30 languages, and *Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point*. 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 Lucan Way are currently working on a book on democratic resilience across the world.

Professor Levitsky has written for *New York Times*, *The Washington Post*, *The Atlantic*, *Foreign Affairs*, and *The New Republic*, and he has been a columnist for *La Republica* (Peru) and *Folha de São Paulo* (Brazil).



 

##  Recent Publications 

 



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### 2024

Levitsky S, Way L. [The Resilience of Democracy’s Third Wave](/publications/resilience-democracy%E2%80%99s-third-wave). PS: Political Science & Politics . 2024;57(2).



 

 

Levitsky S, Way L. [The Resilience of Democracy’s Third Wave](/publications/resilience-democracy%E2%80%99s-third-wave). PS: Political Science & Politics . 2024;57(2).



 

 

 

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### 2023

Levitsky S, Way L. [Democracy’s Surprising Resilience](https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/democracys-surprising-resilience/). Journal of Democracy . 2023;34(4):5–20.



 

 

Levitsky S, Way L. [Democracy’s Surprising Resilience](https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/democracys-surprising-resilience/). Journal of Democracy . 2023;34(4):5–20.



 

 

 

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 Against widespread perceptions, the authors argue that democracy has proven remarkably resilient in the twenty-first century. Fears of a “reverse wave” or a global “authoritarian resurgence” have yet to be borne out. The vast majority of “third wave”... 

 

 

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Levitsky S, Ziblatt D. [Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706046/tyranny-of-the-minority-by-steven-levitsky-and-daniel-ziblatt/). New York: Crown Publishers; 2023.



 

 

Levitsky S, Ziblatt D. [Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706046/tyranny-of-the-minority-by-steven-levitsky-and-daniel-ziblatt/). New York: Crown Publishers; 2023.



 

 

 

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### 2022

[The Third Founding: The Rise of Multiracial Democracy and the Authoritarian Reaction Against It](https://www.californialawreview.org/print/the-third-founding-the-rise-of-multiracial-democracy-and-the-authoritarian-reaction-against-it). California Law Review . 2022;110(6):1991–2004.



 

 

[The Third Founding: The Rise of Multiracial Democracy and the Authoritarian Reaction Against It](https://www.californialawreview.org/print/the-third-founding-the-rise-of-multiracial-democracy-and-the-authoritarian-reaction-against-it). California Law Review . 2022;110(6):1991–2004.



 

 

 

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Levitsky S, Way LA. [Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism](/publications/revolution-and-dictatorship-violent-origins-durable-authoritarianism). Princeton: Princeton University Press; 2022.



 

 

Levitsky S, Way LA. [Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism](/publications/revolution-and-dictatorship-violent-origins-durable-authoritarianism). Princeton: Princeton University Press; 2022.



 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

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