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Levitsky, StevenLevitsky, Steven
Director, Graduate Student Programs; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Government, Harvard University
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Research Interests

Latin American politics; parties and party systems; democracy and democratization.

Publications

Books

  • Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America
  • Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective

Published Papers

  • Argentina Weathers the Storm
  • From Labor Politics to Machine Politics: The Transformation of Party-Union Linkages in Argentine Peronism, 1983?1999
  • Explaining Populist Party Adaptation in Latin America
  • Democracy Without Parties? Political Parties and Regime Change in Fujimori's Peru

Seminar & Conference Papers

  • Ties that Bind? International Linkage and Competitive Authoritarian Regime Change in Africa, Latin America, and Postcommunist Eurasia
  • Autocracy by Democratic Rules: The Dynamics of Competitive Authoritarianism in the Post-Cold War Era

In the News

  • U.S. Must Help Argentina Recover

Research Activities

  • Latin America’s “Left-Turn”: Causes and Implications
  • The Latin Left in Power: How Much Has Changed?

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