Steven Levitsky is Professor of Government at Harvard University.  His research interests include political parties, authoritarianism and democratization, and weak and informal institutions, with a focus on Latin America. He is currently engaged in research on the durability of revolutionary regimes, the relationship between populism and competitive authoritarianism, problems of party-building in contemporary Latin America, and party collapse and its consequences for democracy in Peru.

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