James Loxton

James Loxton is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Sydney.

He is the author of Authoritarianism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2024) and Conservative Party-Building in Latin America: Authoritarian Inheritance and Counterrevolutionary Struggle (Oxford University Press, 2021). He is the co-editor of Life after Dictatorship: Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2016). He holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University.