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Overview

Steven Levitsky is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of Social Sciences. Their work is concentrated in subfields such as Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Development, Economics and Econometrics, and Finance.

The main topics addressed in their research encompass:

  • Politics and Society in Latin America
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • International Development and Aid
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • Historical Economic and Social Studies

Steven Levitsky has a record of publications in both journals and books. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Latin American Politics and Society
  • Journal of democracy
  • World Politics
  • PS Political Science & Politics

Notable recent papers by Levitsky include:

  • The New Competitive Authoritarianism (2020), published in Journal of democracy
  • Democracy's Surprising Resilience (2023), published in Journal of democracy
  • The Resilience of Democracy's Third Wave (2024), published in PS Political Science & Politics
  • When Should the Majority Rule? (2024), published in Journal of democracy

Among the book publications, Levitsky has contributed to titles released by Princeton University Press, including "Revolution and Dictatorship" (2022).

Frequent collaborators in Levitsky's research include:

  • Lucan A. Way
  • Jean Lachapelle
  • Adam E. Casey
  • Alfred P. Montero
  • Carleton College

Best Publications

  • Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War

    Steven Levitsky;Lucan A. Way

  • INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS: A RESEARCH AGENDA

    Gretchen Helmke;Steven Levitsky

  • THE RISE OF COMPETITIVE AUTHORITARIANISM

    Steven Levitsky;Lucan A. Way

  • Competitive Authoritarianism: Acronyms and Abbreviations

    Steven Levitsky;Lucan A. Way

  • Competitive Authoritarianism: Introduction and Theory

    Steven Levitsky;Lucan A. Way

  • How Democracies Die

    Steven Levitsky;Daniel Ziblatt

  • Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective

    Steven Levitsky

  • Patrons, Clients and Policies

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  • The Resurgence of the Latin American Left

    Steven Levitsky;Kenneth M. Roberts

  • International Linkage and Democratization

    Steven Levitsky;Lucan Way

  • Variation in Institutional Strength

    Steven Levitsky;María Victoria Murillo

  • Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America

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  • Populism and competitive authoritarianism in the Andes

    Steven Levitsky;James Loxton

  • Linkage versus Leverage: Rethinking the International Dimension of Regime Change

    Steven Levitsky;Lucan A. Way

  • The third wave of democratization in Latin America : advances and setbacks

    Frances Hagopian;Scott P. Mainwaring

  • Democracy Without Parties? Political Parties and Regime Change in Fujimori's Peru

    Steven Levitsky;Maxwell A. Cameron

  • The Myth of Democratic Recession

    Steven Levitsky;Lucan Way

  • Institutionalization and Peronism The Concept, the Case and the Case for Unpacking the Concept

    Steven Levitsky

  • Beyond Patronage: Violent Struggle, Ruling Party Cohesion, and Authoritarian Durability

    Steven R. Levitsky;Lucan A. Way

  • Linkage, Leverage, and the Post-Communist Divide

    Lucan A. Way;Steven Levitsky

  • The DurabiliTy of revoluTionary regimes

    Steven Levitsky;Lucan Way

  • Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research

    David Collier;Steven Levitsky

  • The dynamics of autocratic coercion after the Cold War

    Lucan A. Way;Steven Levitsky

  • Why Democracy Needs a Level Playing Field

    Steven Levitsky;Lucan A. Way

  • Between a Shock and a Hard Place: The Dynamics of Labor-Backed Adjustment in Poland and Argentina

    Steven Levitsky;Lucan A. Way

  • The New Competitive Authoritarianism

    Steven Levitsky;Lucan Way

  • Social Revolution and Authoritarian Durability

    Jean Lachapelle;Steven Levitsky;Lucan A. Way;Adam E. Casey

  • Is America still safe for democracy? why the United States is in danger of backsliding

    Robert Mickey;Steven Levitsky;Lucan Ahmad Way

  • Crisis, Party Adaptation, and Regime Stability in Argentina: The Case of Peronism, 1989-1995

    Steven Levitsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Lucan A. Way
Lucan A. Way University of Toronto
Maria Victoria Murillo
Maria Victoria Murillo Columbia University
Jorge I. Domínguez
Jorge I. Domínguez Harvard University
David Collier
David Collier University of California, Berkeley
Daniel Ziblatt
Daniel Ziblatt Harvard University
Scott Mainwaring
Scott Mainwaring University of Notre Dame
David J. Samuels
David J. Samuels University of Minnesota

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