Henry King Stanford Distinguished Professors Lecture: "Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point" with Steven Levitsky.
Monday, January 29, 2024 7pm
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The Center for the Humanities is inviting you to join us for the first Henry King Stanford Distinguished Professors Lecture of the year 2024 with Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government and Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University.
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system. Why is democracy under assault here, and not in other wealthy, diversifying nations? And what can we do to save it? In this talk, based on his new best-selling book with Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky will offer a framework for understanding these volatile times, and an urgent call to reform our politics in ways that protect and nourish our democracy.
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
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