Herbert KITSCHELT

Bio

HERBERT P. KITSCHELT (Ph.D., Bielefeld, Germany), George V. Allen Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at Duke University specializes in political parties and elections and comparative political economy. From 1993 to 1996, he held a joint appointment with Humboldt University Berlin. He is author, co-author or editor of Logics of Party Formation (Cornell University Press 1989), Beyond the European Left (Duke University Press, 1990), The Transformation of European Social Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 1994), The Radical Right in Western Europe (University of Michigan Press, 1995, winner of the American Political Science Association’s Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award), Post-Communist Party Systems (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge University Press), Patrons, Clients, and Policies (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Latin American Party Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2010). More recently, he co-authored and co-edited The Politics of Advanced Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Beyond Social Democracy (Cambridge University Press 2024). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). In 2025, he was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. He is currently completing research projects on democratic partisan linkage in competitive democracies around the world, based on the data collected under his direction by Democratic Accountability and Linkage Project (DALP) and one on partisan realignment in postindustrial democracies.