The letter was publicly signed by Ryan Enos, Jeff Flier, Archon Fung, Oliver Hart, Rebecca Henderson, Steve Levitsky, Eric Maskin, Martha Minow, Dani Rodrik, Theda Skocpol and Steve Walt.

"This is an elected government, obviously, but it is behaving as an authoritarian one, " says Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard University and co-author of How Democracies Die.

Steven Levitsky, a Harvard professor and co-author of “How Democracies Die,” notes that authoritarian leaders in El Salvador, Peru and Venezuela all had approval ratings over 80 percent when ...

Do they come your way as well? Yeah. Look, there’s a great book—“How Democracies Die” [by Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky]. They talk about the different signs. One sign I started ...

Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder of OpenAI, has raised $2 billion for his artificial intelligence start-up. The deal values the year-old firm at $32 billion, although it does not yet have a product. Last ...

“We’re in a competitive authoritarian regime right now.” The term “competitive authoritarianism” was coined by Way and the Harvard political scientist Steven Levitsky in the early 2000s to describe ...

An Arlington law professor is representing a lawsuit attempting to end President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs. The lawsuit challenges Trump’s power to make unilateral trade decisions ...

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro at an August 2019 rally in Caracas. (Ariana Cubillos/AP) When Secretary of State Marco Rubio shuttered the State Department’s office in charge of human ...

In their book, Levitsky and Ziblatt return many times to the example of Hungary. The first time Viktor Orbán was Prime Minister, from 1998 to 2002, he governed democratically. But by the time he ...