is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Political Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley.  He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Scholars Program at Berkeley/UCSF since 1999.  Dr. Levy received his BA from Harvard and his Ph.D. from MIT.  His research focuses on economic and social policy among the affluent democracies, particularly France.  Dr. Levy's books include: Tocqueville's Revenge:  State, Society, and Economy in Contemporary France; Developments in French Politics 3 and Developments in French Politics 4 (edited with Alistair Cole and Patrick Le Galès, Palgrave); The State after Statism: New State Activities in the Age of Liberalization (editor, Harvard University Press, 2006); and Constructed Interests: The Process of Political Representation in the Global Age (co-edited, forthcoming 2012).  Dr. Levy is currently conducting research on France's response to the 2008 financial crisis and on progressive approaches to economic liberalization in Western Europe.