Prof. Steve Levitsky (Harvard University) will be discussing his book How Democracies Die at 5pm in Oak Hall 101. The lecture is sponsored by the Gerson Foreign Policy Lectureship Fund and the Department of Political Science and is open to the public. The topic will be the history of how authoritarian governments rose to power inside democracies and the process by which these leaders consolidated power and weakened democratic competition, will a critical look at how these events may be occurring in the United States and elsewhere today.
Steven Levitsky is Professor of Government at Harvard University. His research interests include political parties, authoritarianism and democratization, populism, and weak and informal institutions, with a focus on Latin America. Among his many publications he is author of Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (2003), co-author (with Lucan Way) of Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (2010), and co-author (With Daniel Ziblatt) of How Democracies Die (2018).
For more information, contact: Matthew Singer at matthew.m.singer@uconn.edu