American Democracy Lecture

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 at Harvard University. He is co-author (with Daniel Ziblatt) of How Democracies Die (2018), a New York Times Best-Seller, and Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point (2023). He has written or edited 11 other books and is currently collaborating with author Lucan Way 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).

Daniel Ziblatt is the Eaton Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is the author of four books, including How Democracies Die (2018), written with Steve Levitsky and described by The Economist magazine as “the most important book of the Trump era.” His book Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (2017) won the American Political Science Association’s 2018 Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book in government and international relations and American Sociological Association’s 2018 Barrington Moore Prize. Dr. Ziblatt’s articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and World Politics.

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