Herbert Kitschelt is the George V. Allen Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at Duke University. He specializes in political parties and elections and comparative political economy. He is a member of the American ↵Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). From 1993 to 1996, he also held a joint appointment with Humboldt University, Berlin. Among his many publications, he is author, coauthor or editor of The Transformation of European Social Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 1994), The Radical Right in Western Europe (University of Michigan Press, 1995), and Latin American Party Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Most recently, he coedited The Politics of Advanced Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He is currently completing two research projects, one on democratic partisan linkage in competitive democracies around the world, based on the data collected under his direction by the Democratic Accountability and Linkage Project, and one on partisan realignment in postindustrial democracies, together with Philipp Rehm.