Steven Levitsky is the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government at Harvard University. He also serves as the Director of Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. His research expertise is on political parties, weak and informal institutions, and democratization and authoritarianism. He focuses on Latin American countries. Levitsky has authored or edited 13 books.

Daniel Ziblatt is Harvard’s Eaton Professor of the Science of Government. He also directs Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. His research interests include Europe and the comparative study of the rise and fall of democracies. He has written six books. In 2023, Ziblatt was elected to the American Academy for Arts and Sciences.

Levitsky and Ziblatt’s first jointly-authored book, How Democracies Die, was a New York Times bestseller. Their second book, Tyranny of the Minority, is also a New York Times bestseller. The breadth and depth of both scholars’ research enables them to write an authoritative account on modern American democracy.