Katherine Bersch

@K_Bersch

Poli sci prof @DavidsonCollege | Investigator, Governance Project @StanfordCDDRL | Author: When Democracies Deliver

Davidson, NC berschkatherine.com Joined July 2011

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Katherine Bersch @K_Bersch Jun 23, 2020

Thanks @CUP_PoliSci and @SaraDoskow!

Cambridge University Press - Politics @CUP_PoliSci Jun 23, 2020

A huge congratulations to @K_Bersch, whose book WHEN DEMOCRACIES DELIVER has been awarded the 2020 Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize by the @ipsa_aisp RC-27!

Learn more: ow.ly/8uZb50AfzXg

#LatAmPolitics

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Katherine Bersch @K_Bersch Oct 8

Excited to discuss this important book today at CIDE.

Guillermo M. Cejudo @GmoCejudo Oct 5

Este jueves presentamos el libro "Policy Dismantling in Latin America"

8 de octubre de 2026, 13:00, en la Sala del @CIDE_MX
La transmisión se hará por acá: bit.ly/3VVPyz2

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Katherine Bersch @K_Bersch Jun 7

On behalf of IPSA’s RC 27 (sponsor of @Gov_Journal), delighted to announce that the Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize has been awarded to Isabel Perera (@isabelmperera) for The Welfare Workforce: Why Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent Democracies (@CUP_PoliSci).🏆1/5

Katherine Bersch @K_Bersch Feb 14

Deadline approaching: Charles H. Levine Book Prize
⏰ Nominations due March 15, 2026

Katherine Bersch @K_Bersch Nov 19, 2025

Call for Nominations: The 2026 Levine Prize is now open! Books must be published in 2025 and submitted by March 15, 2026.
Committee: Eduardo Dargent @DargentEduardo, Dan Honig @rambletastic, and @K_Bersch (chair).
Please send a copy to all three committee members. Sponsored by @Gov_Journal &
@sog_rc27.

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Katherine Bersch @K_Bersch Feb 6

Denmark: ~25–100 political appointees.
U.S. (until now): ~4,000.
Brazil: ~25,000.
This rule moves the U.S. toward ~50,000.
A merit-based, non-partisan civil service is a hard-won achievement of political order—and decades of comparative research show it delivers better government outcomes. Undoing it is easy. Rebuilding it is not. nytimes.com/2026/02/05/us/…

www.nytimes.com Trump Strips Job Protections From Thousands of Federal Workers The policy change makes it easier for the president to discipline or remove up to 50,000 employees, another push in the administration’s campaign to reshape the federal work force.