Meanings
plural Levitskys
- A surname from Russian.
1 more example
“Honest to god, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and coauthor of “How Democracies Die” and “Competitive Authoritarianism.” […] In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has purged thousands of judges from the judiciary as part of a broader effort to consolidate power in his own hands. But that required decades of effort and multiple constitutional changes, Levitsky said. It only became fully successful after a failed 2016 coup provided a political justification for the purge.
2025 March 20, Amanda Taub, “‘This is worse’: Trump’s judicial defiance veers beyond the autocrat playbook”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2025
Origin
- RussianЛеви́цкий
- EnglishLevitsky
Derived from Russian Леви́цкий (Levíckij).
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