Daniel Ziblatt

Daniel Ziblatt
Citizenship	American
Education	Pomona College (BA), UC Berkeley (PhD)
Occupation	Political scientist
Employer	Harvard University

Daniel Ziblatt (born 1972) is an American political scientist who has been Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University since 2018.

Education

Ziblatt holds a BA in German studies and politics from Pomona College and a PhD in political science from UC Berkeley. ^[1]

Research

In 2018 Ziblatt published How Democracies Die with fellow Harvard scholar Steven Levitsky. The book examines the conditions that can lead democracies to break down from within, rather than due to external events such as military coups or foreign invasions. How Democracies Die received widespread praise. It spent a number of weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list and six weeks on the non-fiction bestseller list of the German weekly Der Spiegel . ^[2]

The book was recognized as one of the best nonfiction books of 2018 by The Washington Post , Time , and Foreign Affairs . ^[3]

Publications

Books

• Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point, with Steven Levitsky, (Crown, 2023, ISBN   978-0-593-44307-1)
• How Democracies Die , with Steven Levitsky, (Crown, 2018, ISBN   9780525574538) – NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis 2018; Goldsmith Book Prize 2019
• Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, ISBN   9781107001626) ^[4]
• Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, ISBN   9780691121673)

References

1. "Bio and CV". scholar.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-22.
2. "Sachbuch". Spiegel Online. Der Spiegel. 25 August 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
3. "How Democracies Die". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
4. Frum, David (20 June 2017). "Why Do Democracies Fail? (book review)". The Atlantic . Retrieved 8 November 2018.

External links

• Daniel Ziblatt at Harvard University Retrieved 8 December 2019
• Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt, "How Democracies Die", Politics and Prose 6-2-2018 on YouTube Retrieved 8 December 2019
• Appearances on C-SPAN