Stanford Seminar "How Democracies Die: Where Are We Now?"
Monday, January 29, 2024 12:30pm
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1300 Memorial Dr, Coral Gables, FL 33146
https://humanities.as.miami.edu/academic-programs/seminars/index.html"How Democracies Die: Where Are We Now?"
Featured Stanford Seminar Speaker: Steven Levitsky, Harvard University
Monday, January 29, 12:30 – 2:00pm, Richter Library, First Floor, Flex B. (Lunch Provided.) / Open to University of Miami Faculty and Graduate Students.
Please RSVP by Thursday, January 25 (end of day, so we can confirm number of lunches and prepare for the seminar set-up).
Steven Levitsky will lead a lively informal discussion, taking as his jumping-off point the main arguments of How Democracies Die(Crown, 2018), the bestselling, award-winning book he wrote with Daniel Ziblatt. Levitsky will briefly highlight the main symptoms of the erosion of democratic norms as they’ve revealed themselves historically and in the present, in the US and elsewhere. He’ll then update us on trends over the last five years up to the publication of his new book (also with Daniel Ziblatt), The Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point (Crown, 2023). Please join us for an intimate conversation that will be the perfect prelude to Levitsky’s evening talk.
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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