About the Department

Steven Levitsky is Professor of Government at Harvard University. His primary areas of research include political parties, informal institutions, and political regimes and regime change in Latin America. He is author of Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (2003), and co-editor of Argentine Politics: The Politics of Institutional Weakness (2006) and Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America (forthcoming). He has published articles in Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Latin American Studies, Party Politics, Perspectives on Politics, World Politics, and Studies in Comparative International Development. He is currently engaged in research on the emergence and trajectories of competitive authoritarian regimes in Africa, Central Europe, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union during the post-Cold War era.