Professor of Political Science at Harvard University and director of the «Transformations of Democracy» research unit at the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre in Berlin, Germany. He published the book «How Democracies Die» (Crown, 2018) co-authored with Steve Levitsky, which became a New York Times and Der Spiegel (Germany) bestseller. He is also the author of «Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy», an account of the historical democratisation of Europe, which won the 2018 Woodrow Wilson Prize of the American Political Science Association for the best book on government and international relations, and the 2018 Barrington Moore Prize of the American Sociological Association. His first book, «Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism» (Princeton, 2006), analysed 19th-century state building. More recently, he has been a Fellow and Visiting Professor at the European University Institute (Italy), the Center for Advanced Study (Stanford), the Max Planck Institute (Germany), the University of Munich and the Ecole Normale Supérieure (France).

Last updated: March 2023