American Democracy at the Crossroads

with Steven Levitsky

Thursday, February 24, 2022
5 p.m. to 6 p.m. ET

Watch a recording of the event here.

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Steven Levitsky, David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government at Harvard University. Dr. Levitsky will preview his next publication, a follow-up to the 2018 best-selling book How Democracies Die, which The Economist called "the most important book of the Trump era."

This event is co-sponsored by the Carnegie Mellon chapter of the Alexander Hamilton Society.

About Dr. Levitsky:

Steven Levitsky is David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is also Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. His research focuses on democratization and authoritarianism, political parties, and weak and informal institutions, with a focus on in Latin America. He is co-author (with Daniel Ziblatt) of How Democracies Die (Crown, 2018), which was a New York Times Best-Seller and was published in 25 languages. 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 Daniel Ziblatt are currently working on a book on the rise of (and reaction against) multiracial democracy in the United States.