Margaret Levi

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"Margaret Levi's research program addresses fundamental issues concerning the bases for and effects of legitimacy, compliance, and consent in democratic regimes. Levi's scholarship has made pioneering contributions to understanding enduring questions about the conditions for and consequences of trust and distrust, compliance and resistance, and individual versus collective action." [12]

While director of CASBS, much of Levi's scholarship focused on political economy, theories of change, and institutional design in what Levi and her collaborators describe as framework for a new "moral political economy." [25]

Levi was general editor of the series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. [8] She is a member editor of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) [13] and co-editor of the Annual Review of Political Science . [26] Levi has served on the boards of the: Social Science Research Council (SSRC); [27] Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; [28] Center for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (CEACS) in Madrid; Scholar and Research Group of the World Justice Project, [29] and the Berggruen Institute. [30]

Her fellowships include the Woodrow Wilson in 1968, German Marshall in 1988–1989, and the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences in 1993–1994. She has been a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, Brown University, the European University Institute, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, the Juan March institute, the Budapest Collegium, Cardiff University, the University of Oxford, Bergen University, and Peking University. [8]

Awards and honors

She became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in 2002, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2015. She served as president of the American Political Science Association from 2004 to 2005. In 2014 she received the William H. Riker Prize in Political Science. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science as of 2017. [9] She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018 and the British Academy in 2022. [31] [32] She is the 2019 winner of the Johan Skytte Prize. [1] In 2020 her ideas on "community fate" won recognition as Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year in Social Sciences and Humanities. [33] She received an Honorary Doctorate from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2019. [34]

Personal life

Levi and her husband, attorney Robert Kaplan, collect Australian Aboriginal art, [5] [35] Ancestral Modern, an exhibition drawn from their collection, was on view at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) in 2012. [36] [37] It afterward travelled to the Frist Center for the Arts in Nashville, the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, and the Audain Art Museum in Whistler. [38] A gift of their art to the Metropolitan Museum was exhibited by museum in 2017 in a special exhibition titled "On Country." [39]

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Further reading

Margaret Levi
Margaret Levi in 2022 01.jpg
Levi in 2022
Born1947 (age 7576)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Political scientist, author
Awards Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science
Academic background
Education Bryn Mawr College (BA)
Harvard University (PhD)
Influences Michael Lipsky
Robert Fogelson
Edward C. Banfield