2006 Winner of the Best Article Award from the American Political Science Association’s Comparative Democratization Section
Teaching Interests
Comparative Politics: Revolution
Democracy and Authoritarianism in Modern
Comparative Politics: Ethnic Conflict and Democratization in Europe After the Cold War
Publications
Lucan Way "The Limits of the Authoritarian International" Harvard International Review. (forthcoming)
Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War. (with Steven Levitsky) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Lucan Way "Burnt Orange: What Ukraine's Presidential Election Means for Democracy." Foreign Affairs 2010
Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way "Why Democracy Needs a Level Playing Field." Journal of Democracy. 21(1) 57-68 (2010)
Lucan Way "Resistance to Contagion: Sources of Autocratic Stability in the Former Soviet Union" in V. Bunce, M. McFaul, and K. Stoner-Weiss eds. Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Lucan Way "Debating the Color Revolutions: A Reply to My Critics" Journal of Democracy. 20, No. 1 90-97 (January 2009)
Lucan Way "The Real Causes of the Color Revolutions " Journal of Democracy. 19, No. 3: 55-69 (July 2008)
Lucan Way Authoritarian State Building and the Sources of Regime Competitiveness in the Fourth Wave: The Cases of Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine? World Politics, 57 (2): 231-265 (January 2005)
