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Steven Levitsky (Ph.D, University of California at Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University. His areas of research include political parties and party change, informal institutions and organizations, and political regimes and regime change. His primary regional interest is Latin America, with a particular focus on Argentina and Peru. He is author of Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2003). He is currently writing a book on the rise of competitive authoritarian regimes in Latin America, Africa, Asia, East-Central Europe, and the former Soviet Union during the post-Cold War era. He is also co-editing a book (with Gretchen Helmke) on informal institutions in Latin America. Professor Levitsky's courses include Introduction to Comparative Politics (Fall semester), Comparative Politics of Latin America (Spring semester), and Democracy and Authoritarianism in Latin America (Spring semester).