Margaret Levi

Margaret Levi is Senior Fellow, Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL); professor emerita of political science, Stanford University; emerita Bacharach professor of political science, University of Washington; and visiting professor, London School of Economics. She is the former Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). She is the winner of the 2019 Johan Skytte Prize and the 2020 Falling Walls Breakthrough award. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and American Academy of Political and Social Science. She served as president of the American Political Science Association. Recent books include In the Interest of Others (Princeton University Press, 2013), coauthored with John Ahlquist, and A Moral Political Economy: Present, Past, Future (Cambridge University Press, 2021), coauthored with Federica Carugati. She writes about what makes for trustworthy governance and what evokes citizen compliance, consent, and dissent. She is also working on the prerequisites of an effective political economy of care. Levi was a fellow at CASBS in 1993-94.