STEVEN LEVITSKY

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

Harvard University
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Cambridge, MA 02138

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TEACHING AND RESEARCH POSITIONS

Professor of Government, Harvard University, 2008John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
Department of Government, Harvard University, 2004-08
Assistant Professor
Department of Government, Harvard University, 2000-03
Visiting Fellow
Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, Fall 1999
EDUCATION
University of California at Berkeley
Ph.D. in Political Science, 1999
Stanford University
B.A., with honors and distinction, in Political Science, 1990
BOOKS
Forthcoming. Competitive Authoritarianism: International Linkage, Organizational Power,
and the Fate of Hybrid Regimes (with Lucan A. Way).
2006. Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America (edited with
Gretchen Helmke). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
2005. Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness (edited with M.
Victoria Murillo). University Park: Penn State University Press.
2003. Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in
Comparative Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press.
[Published in Spanish as Transformacin del Justicialismo: Del Partido
Sindical al Partido Clientelista. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2005]
JOURNAL ARTICLES
2009. Variation in Institutional Strength. (with Mara Victoria Murillo). Annual Review of
Political Science 12.
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2008. Argentina: From Kirchner to Kirchner. (with Mara Victoria Murillo). Journal of
Democracy 19, No. 2 (April): 16-30.
2007. Linkage, Leverage and the Post-Communist Divide (with Lucan Way). East European
Politics and Societies 27, No. 21: 48-66.
2006. Organized Labor and Democracy in Latin America (with Scott Mainwaring).
Comparative Politics 39, No. 1 (October): 21-42.
2006. Linkage versus Leverage: Rethinking the International Dimension of Regime Change
(with Lucan Way). Comparative Politics 38, No. 4 (July): 379-400.
2006. The Dynamics of Autocratic Coercive Capacity after the Cold War (with Lucan Way).
Communist and Post-Communist Studies 39, No. 3: 387-410.
2005. International Linkage and Democratization (with Lucan Way). Journal of Democracy.
16, No. 3 (July): 20-34.
2004. Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics: A Research Agenda (with Gretchen
Helmke). Perspectives on Politics 2, No. 4 (December): 725-740.
2003. Argentina Weathers the Storm (with M. Victoria Murillo). Journal of Democracy 14,
No. 4 (October): 152-166.
2003. From Labor Politics to Machine Politics: The Transformation of Party-Union Linkages
in Argentine Peronism, 1983-99. Latin American Research Review 38, No. 3: 3-36.
[Also published in Desarrollo Econmico (Argentina)]
2003. Explaining Populist Party Adaptation in Latin America: Environmental and
Organizational Determinants of Party Change in Argentina, Mexico, Peru, and
Venezuela (with Katrina Burgess). Comparative Political Studies 36, No. 8 (October):
859-880.
2003. Democracy without Parties? Political Parties and Regime Change in Fujimoris Peru
(with Maxwell Cameron). Latin American Politics and Society 45, No. 3 (Fall): 1-33.
[Also published in Instituciones y Desarrollo (Spain)]
2002. The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism (with Lucan Way). Journal of Democracy
13, No. 2 (April): 51-66.
[Also published in Estudios Polticos (Colombia) 24 (July 2004).]
2001. Organization and Labor-Based Party Adaptation: The Transformation of Argentine
Peronism in Comparative Perspective. World Politics 54, No. 1(October): 27-56.
2001. Inside the Black Box: Recent Studies of Latin American Party Organization. Studies
in Comparative International Development 36, No. 2 (summer): 92-110.

2001. An Organized Disorganization: Informal Organization and the Persistence of Local

Party Structures in Argentine Peronism. Journal of Latin American Studies 33, No.
1 (February): 29-66.
[Also published in Revista de Ciencias Sociales (Argentina) (October 2001)].
2000. The Normalization of Argentine Politics. Journal of Democracy 11, No. 2 (April):
56-69.
1999. Fujimori and Post-Party Politics in Peru. Journal of Democracy 10, No. 3 (July): 78-92.
1998. Crisis, Party Adaptation, and Regime Stability in Argentina: The Case of Peronism,
1989-1995. Party Politics 4, No. 4: 445-470.
[Also published in Revista de Ciencias Sociales (Argentina) (September 1997)].
1998. Between a Shock and a Hard Place: The Dynamics of Labor-Backed Adjustment in
Argentina and Poland (with Lucan Way). Comparative Politics 30, No. 2 (January):
171-192.
1998. Peronism and Institutionalization: The Case, the Concept, and the Case for
Unpacking
the Concept. Party Politics 4, No. 1 (January): 77-92.
1997. Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research" (with
David Collier), World Politics 49, No. 3 (April): 430-51.
[Also published in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica (December 1997), Agora,
Buenos Aires (January 1998), and La Politica, Barcelona (October 1998)].
1991. FSLN Congress: A Cautious First Step. Journal of Communist Studies 7, No. 4
(December): 539-544.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Forthcoming. Democracy without Parties? Political Parties and Regime Change in Peru (with
Maxwell Cameron). In William C. Smith and Felipe Aguero, eds. New Perspectives on
Democracy in Latin America. Oxford and Boston: Blackwell Publishers.
[Revised and updated version of our 2003 article in Latin American Politics and Society]
2008. Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research (with
David Collier). In Alan S. Zuckerman, ed., Comparative Political Science, Vol. 1.
Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
2008. Argentina: Democracy and Institutional Weakness. In Jorge I. Dominguez and
Michael Shifter, eds. Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America
(Second edition). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
2007. From Populism to Clientelism? The Transformation of Labor-Based Party Linkages
in Latin America. In Herbert Kitschelt and Steven Wilkerson, eds. Patrons, Clients
and Policies: Patterns of Democratic Accountability and Political Competition.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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2006. Linkage and Leverage: How Do International Factors Affect Domestic Balances of
Power? (with Lucan A. Way). In Andreas Schedler, ed. Electoral Authoritarianism:
The Dynamics of Unfree Competition. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.
2006. Informal Institutions and Party Organization in Latin America (with Flavia Friedenberg).
In Gretchen Helmke and Steven Levitsky, eds. Informal Institutions and Democracy:
Lessons from Latin America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).
2006. Building Castles in the Sand? The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Argentina. (with
Mara Victoria Murillo). In Steven Levitsky and Mara Victoria Murillo, eds. Argentine
Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness (University Park, PA: Penn State
University Press).
2006. Crisis and Renovation: Institutional Weakness and the Transformation of Argentine
Peronism. In Steven Levitsky and Mara Victoria Murillo, eds. Argentine
Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness (University Park, PA: Penn State
University Press).
2005. Argentina: Democratic Survival Amidst Economic Failure. In Frances Hagopian and
Scott Mainwaring, eds. Advances and Setbacks in Latin Americas Third Wave of
Democractization (New York: Cambridge University Press).
2003. Argentina: From Crisis to Consolidation (and Back). In Jorge I. Dominguez and
Michael Shifter, eds. Constructing Democratic Governance (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press).
2003. Los Partidos Obreros en Transformacin en Amrica Latina: El Partido Justicialista
Argentina en Perspectiva Comparada. In Manuel Alcantara and Elena M. Barahona,
eds. Poltica,Dinero e Institucionalizacin Partidista en Amrica Latina. Mexico
City: Universidad Iberoamericana.
BOOK REVIEWS
2004. Marina Ottaway: Democracy Challenged: The Rise of Semi-Authoritarianism. In
Perspectives on Politics 2, No. 1: 184.
2002. Nancy R. Powers, Grassroots Expectations of Democracy and Economy: Argentina in
Comparative Perspective. In American Political Science Review 96, No. 3
(September): 669-70.
2001. James W. McGuire, Peronism Without Pern: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in
Argentina. In Journal of Latin American Studies 33, no 1: 163-165.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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2006. "Pigs, Wolves and the Evolution of Post-Soviet Competitive Authoritarianism, 19922005 (with Lucan A. Way). CDDRL Working Paper. Center on Democracy,
Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University (June 2006)
2005. Ties That Bind? Leverage, Linkage, and Democratization in the Post-Cold War World
(with Lucan Way). International Studies Review 7: 519-524.
2003. Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics: A Research Agenda (with Gretchen
Helmke). Kellogg Institute Working Paper No. 307, Kellogg Institute for
International Studies, University of Notre Dame (September 2003).
2001. Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regime Change in Peru and Ukraine in
Comparative Perspective (with Lucan Way). Studies in Public Policy Working Paper
No. 355. Glasgow: University of Strathclyde.
2001. Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: The Argentine Justicialista
Party in Comparative Perspective Kellogg Institute Working Paper #288, Kellogg
Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame (July 2001).
2001. Mas all de las elecciones: reconstruyendo la democracia peruana (with Cynthia
Sanborn). Punto de Equilibrio 10, no. 61: 50-53.
1996. Democracy with Adjectives: Finding Conceptual Order in Recent Comparative
Research (with David Collier), Kellogg Institute Working Paper #230, Kellogg
Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame (August 1996) (This is a
longer version of the article published in World Politics).
1992. Taming the Honduran Military. Hemisphere 4, No. 3 (summer): 36-38.
1992. Solidarismo: Call to Solidarity Divides Costa Rican Workers (with Tony Lapp).
Hemisphere 4, No. 1 (winter).
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2008. The Evolution of Competitive Authoritarianism in Africa. Paper presented at the Annual
Meetings of the American Political Science Association, August 28-September 1, 2008,
Boston, MA.
2006. Competitive Authoritarianism: The Origins and Evolution of Hybrid Regimes in the PostCold War Era (with Lucan A. Way). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the
American Political Science Association, August 30-September 3, 2006, Philadelphia, PA.
2006. Variation in Institutional Strength in Latin America: Causes and Implications (with M.
Victoria Murillo). Paper Presented at the International Meetings of the Latin American
Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006.

2005. Western Linkage and Leverage and the Failure of Democracy in the Former Soviet
Union (with Lucan A. Way). Paper presented at IV General Assembly of the Club de
Madrid: Democracy in the Postcommunist World. Prague, The Czech Republic,
November 9-12, 2005.
2005. Linkage and Democratization in the Post Cold War Era: A Quantitative Assessment
(with Lucan A. Way). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political
Science Association, Washington, DC, 1-4 September, 2005.
2004. Linkage versus Leverage: Rethinking the International Dimension of Regime Change.
Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association,
Chicago, Illinois, 2-5 September, 2004.
2003. Ties that Bind? International Linkage and Competitive Authoritarian Regime Change in
Africa, Latin America, and Post-Communist Eurasia (with Lucan Way). ). Paper
presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association,
Philadelphia, PA, 27-30 August, 2003.
2003. Informal Institutions and Politics in Latin America (with Gretchen Helmke). Paper
presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association,
Philadelphia, PA, 27-30 August, 2003.
2003. Chaos and Renovation: Institutional Weakness and the Transformation of Argentine
Peronism, 1983-2002. Paper presented at the XXIV International Congress of the
Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, TX, March 27-29, 2003.
2003. Autocracy by Democratic Rules: The Dynamics of Competitive Authoritarianism in
the Post-Cold War Era (with Lucan Way). Paper presented at the conference
Mapping the Gray Zone, Mapping the Great Zone: Clientelism and the Boundary
between Democratic and Democratizing, Columbia University, April 4-5, 2003.
2002. Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics: A Preliminary Research Agenda
(with Gretchen Helmke). Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American
Political Science Association, Boston, MA, 29 August-1 September, 2002.
2002. Autocracy by Democratic Rules: The Dynamics of Competitive Authoritarianism in the
Post-Cold War Era (with Lucan Way). Paper presented at the annual meetings of the
American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, 29 August-1 September, 2002.
2002. Organizacines Partidistas e Institucionalizacin Informal en America Latina (with
Flavia Freidenberg). Paper presented at the Latin American Congress of Political
Science, University of Salamanca, July 9-11, 2002.
2002. Competitive Authoritarianisn in the Post-Cold War Era (with Lucan Way). Paper
presented at the conference Non-Democratic Regimes and Trajectories After the Cold
War. Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 10-11 May,
2002.

2001. Explaining Mass Populist Party Adaptation: Environmental and Organizational

Determinants of Party Change in Argentina, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela (with
Katrina Burgess). Paper presented at the XXIII Congress of the Latin American
Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 6-8 September, 2001.
2001. Democracy without Parties? Party Weakness and Regime Collapse in Fujimoris Peru
(with Maxwell Cameron). Paper presented at the XXIII Congress of the Latin
American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 6-8 September, 2001.
2001. Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes in Peru and Ukraine in Comparative
Perspective (with Lucan Way). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American
Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, 30 August-2 September, 2001.
2001. The Organized Working Class and Democracy in Latin America (with Scott
Mainwaring). Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Political
Science Association, San Francisco, CA, 30 August-2 September, 2001.
2001. The Paradox of Menemism: Parties, Civil Society, and Regime Stability in Argentina.
Paper delivered at the conference, Advances and Setbacks in the Third Wave of
Democratization in Latin America, Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame, April
23-34, 2001.
2001. From Labor Politics to Machine Politics: The De-Unionization of Argentine Peronism
and the Transformation of Working Class Linkages in Latin America. Paper
presented at the conference Citizen-Politician Linkages in Democratic Politics,
Duke University, 30 March-1 April, 2001.
2000. Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in
Comparative Perspective. Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Washington, D.C, 31 August-3 September, 2000.
2000. De Laborismo al Liberalismo: Institucionalizacin y Adaptacn Partidaria en el
Peronismo Argentino, 1983-1999. Presented at the Conference Los Partidos
Polticos Ante Los Retos del Siglo XXI, Instituto de Estudios de Iberoamrica y
Portugal, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, 1-2 June, 2000.
2000. Peronism after Populism: Populist Legacies and Party Adaptation in Latin America.
Presented at the Conference Old Populism, New Populism in Latin America, Yale
University, 7-8 April, 2000.
2000. An Organized Disorganization: Informal Structures and the Persistence of Mass
Organization in Argentine Peronism (Or why the Peronist Party is Stronger than it
Looks). Paper delivered at the XXII International Congress of the Latin American
Studies Association, Miami, Florida, 16-18 March, 2000.
1998. From Labor Politics to Machine Politics: The De-Unionization of Urban Peronism,
1983-1997. Paper delivered at the XXI International Congress of the Latin American
Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, 1998.
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1997. Crisis, Party Adaptation, and Regime Stability in Argentina: The Case of Peronism,
1989-1995. Paper delivered at the XX International Congress of the Latin American
Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1997.
1996. Labor-Based Party Adaptation and Survival in Argentina, paper delivered at the
conference, Economic Reform and Civil Society in Latin America, David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, April 1996.
1996. Coalitions Under Stress: Governing Labor-Based Parties in a Liberalizing World
(with Lucan Way), paper delivered at the conference, "Coalitions Under Stress:
Governing Labor-Based Parties in a Liberalizing World," Institute for International
Studies, University of California, Berkeley, January 1996.
1995. Populism is Dead! Long Live the Populist Party! Party Adaptation Through
Coalitional Realignment in Peronist Argentina, Paper delivered at the XIX
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC,
1995.
1995. The Structure of Conceptual Subtypes: The Case of Democracy in Recent
Comparative Research (with David Collier), paper delivered at the XIX International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC, 1995.
1994. Democracy with Adjectives: Finding Conceptual Order in Recent Comparative
Research (with David Collier), paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association, New York, NY.
1994. Captivating Alliances: Unions, Labor-backed Parties and the Politics of Economic
Adjustment in Argentina and Mexico (with Sarah Kelsey), paper delivered at the
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Atlanta,
GA.
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
2007. Latin Americas Left Turn: Causes and Implications Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs, Harvard University, April 2008.
2003. Informal Institutions and Politics in Latin America. Kellogg Institute for International
Studies, University of Notre Dame, April 24-25, 2003.
2003. Rethinking Dual Transitions: Argentine Politics in the 1990s in Comparative
Perspective. Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University,
March 20-22, 2003.
2002. Non-Democratic Regimes and Trajectories After the Cold War. Weatherhead Center
for International Affairs, Harvard University, 10-11 May, 2002.

2002. Informal Institutions and Politics in the Developing World. Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs, Harvard University, April 5-6, 2002.
AWARDS
2004.

John L. Loeb Chair, Harvard University

For outstanding achievement in teaching, research, and departmental citizenship

2004.

Roslyn Abramson Award, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

For excellence and sensitivity in teaching.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Fulbright Fellowship for Teaching and Research in Peru, 2009-2010.
Faculty Conference Grant for Explaining Latin Americas Left Turn, Weatherhead Center
for International Affairs, 2007.
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Distinguished Research Faculty
Associate/Douglas Dillan Fellow (one semester paid leave), 2004-05
Faculty Research Grant, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 2002-03.
Faculty Conference Grant for Rethinking Dual Transitions in Argentina, Weatherhead
Center for International Affairs, 2002-03
Faculty Conference Grant for Rethinking Dual Transitions in Argentina, Wdavid
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2002-03
Faculty Conference Grant for Informal Institutions and Politics in the Developing World,
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 2001-02
Faculty Research Grant, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard
University, 2000-2001.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre
Dame, 1999.
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship, U.S.
Department of Education, 1996-97.
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)/American Council of Learned Societies
Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1996-97.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Three Year Graduate Fellowship, 1993.

PUBLIC LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

2007. Competitive Authoritarianism: The Origins and Evolution of Hybrid Regimes in the
Post Cold War Era. University of Notre Dame, March 29, 2007
2006. Latin Americas Left Turn. Institute of Politics, Harvard University, December 2006.
2006. Competitive Authoritarianism: The Origins and Evolution of Hybrid Regimes in the Post
Cold War Era. Columbia University, October 25, 2006.
2006. Competitive Authoritarianism: The Origins and Evolution of Hybrid Regimes in the PostCold War Era. Department of Political Science, Yale University, November 28, 2006.
2006. Competitive Authoritarianism in Latin America. Program in Latin American Studies,
Princeton University, November 14 2006
2006. Competitive Authoritarianism: The Origins and Evolution of Hybrid Regimes in the Post
Cold War Era. Center for the Study of Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law,
Stanford University, May 31, 2006.
2006. International Linkage and the Democratization of Competitive Authoritarian Regimes.
Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University, May 30, 2006.
2006. Competitive Authoritarianism: The Origins and Evolution of Hybrid Regimes in the Post
Cold War Era. Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, March 31,
2006.
2005. Linkage versus Leverage: Rethinking the International Dimension of Regime Change.
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, April 1, 2005.
2003. Autocracy by Democratic Rules: The Dynamics of Competitive Authoritarianism in the
Post-Cold War Era. Columbia University, April 4, 2003.
2003. Argentinas Elections. Northeastern University, May 2003.
2003. Argentinas Elections. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, April 29,
2003.
2002. Autocracy by Democratic Rules: The Dynamics of Competitive Authoritarianism in the
Post-Cold War Era. Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania,
November 2002.
2002. Economic Crisis and Democracy in Argentina. David Rockefeller Center for Latin
American Studies, Harvard University March 19, 2003.
2002. Argentina: What Went Wrong? University of New Mexico, May 2, 2002.

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2002. Argentina: The Next Five Years. Harvard Business School, Harvard University, April
29, 2002.
2002. The Argentine Crisis: Past, Present, and Future. University of Texas at Austin, April 23,
2002.
2002. Argentine Democracy at the Crossroads. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Studies, Harvard University, April 16, 2002.
2002. Pesos, Politics, Pots and Pans: Argentina in Crisis. Watson Institute, Brown
University, March 8, 2002.
2002. Economic Crisis and Democracy in Argentina. New England Latin America Business
Council, Fleet Bank, Boston, MA, March 5, 2002.
2002. Argentina in Crisis: Is There an Explanation for the Last 45 Days? A View into the
Crisis and its Possible Solutions. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies,
Harvard University, February 7, 2002.
2001. Argentina: Impact of a Crisis. Corporate Partners Program Fall Seminar, David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, November 2, 2002.
2001. The State of Democracy in Latin America, HACIA Democracy student conference,
Harvard University, February 17, 2001.
2000. Into Uncharted Territory: Transitions and Prospects for Democracy in Peru, Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, November 13, 2000.
2000. From Laborism to Liberalism: Institutionalization and Labor-Based Party Adaptation in
Argentina. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, February 15, 2000.
2000. Institutionalization and Labor-Based Party Adaptation: Argentine Peronism in the
1990s. Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, January
28, 2000.
OPINION-EDITORIALS
2003. Pern, Pinochet, and Patience (with Jorge I. Domnguez). New York Times, 26
January, 2003.
2002. U.S. Must Help Argentina Recover (with Jorge I. Domnguez). Miami Herald, 2
January, 2002.
2001. A Hard Choice in Peru (with Cynthia Sanborn). New York Times, 9 May, 2001.
2001. Retorno al Desierto: El Persistente Fracaso de la Derecha Peruana. La Republica
(Peru) Sunday magazine,15 April, 2001.
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2000. El Error Histrico de la Oposicin Peruana. La Republica (Peru) Sunday magazine,

30 January 2000.
1999. El Fin del Menemismo. La Republica (Peru) Sunday magazine, 11 November, 1999.
1998. Fujimori: Un Dictador y su Democracia. La Republica (Peru) Sunday magazine, 13
September, 1998.
1998. Menem y Fujimori: Un Solo Camino Para Sus Ambiciones? La Republica (Peru)
Sunday magazine, 2 August 1998

UNIVERSITY/DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
Director of Graduate Programs, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 2002-present.
Chaired weekly Friday lunch seminars with Graduate Student Associates
Member, Executive Committee, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 2002-present
Co-Coordinator, Latin America Tuesday Lunch Seminar Series David Rockefeller Center for
Latin American Studies, Harvard University, 2000-present
Chaired weekly Tuesday seminars
Member, Committee on Latin American and Iberian Studies, 2000-present.
Member, Policy Committee, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2000present
Member, Government Department Graduate Admissions Committee, 2000-01, 2005-06, and
2006-07
Faculty Coordinator, Social Studies Junior Tutorial program, 2004-2005 and 2006-2007.
Member, Junior Faculty Forum, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 2006-07
Met monthly with Dean David Cutler to discuss ways of improving junior faculty life at
Harvard.
Faculty Advisor for three Harvard undergraduate organizations: Harvard Organization for
Latin America (HOLA), Hacia Democracy, and Fuerza Latina, 2002-present
Member, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Task Force on Student Programs,
2003.
Member, Undergraduate Summer Research Grants selection committee, David Rockefeller
Center for Latin American Studies, 2001, 2003, 2008.
Member, Government Department Undergraduate Concentration Committee, 2002-03.
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Member, Government Department-Social Studies joint search committee to fill three junior
faculty position in International Relations, 2000-01.
Member, Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Fellowship selection committee, David Rockefeller for
Latin American Studies, 2000, 2008.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/SERVICE
2007- Editorial Board, Journal of Democracy
2000- Editorial Board, Party Politics
2000- Non-Resident Associate, Inter-American Dialogue (Washington, DC)
1993- Member, American Political Science Association
1993- Member, Latin American Studies Association
LANGUAGES

Fluent in Spanish.

TEACHING FIELDS: Comparative and Latin American politics

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