Daniel Ziblatt
American political scientist
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- PhD Government University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Daniel Ziblatt is an American political scientist and a professor at Harvard University with a research focus on comparative politics, democracy and democratization as well as the politics and political history of Western Europe. Since 2018 he has been Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of the book Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy. In 2018, Ziblatt also published How Democracies Die with fellow Harvard professor 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. The book was recognized as one of the best nonfiction books of 2018 by The Washington Post, Time, and Foreign Affairs.
Daniel Ziblatt's Published Works
Published Works
- How Democracies Die (2018) (292)
- The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies: A New Research Agenda for Europe and Beyond (2010) (264)
- Shaping Democratic Practice and the Causes of Electoral Fraud: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Germany (2009) (197)
- V-Dem Codebook V8 (2018) (168)
- "Structuring the state: the formation of Italy and Germany and the puzzle of federalism" di Daniel Ziblatt: Discussione e replica (2006) (156)
- The Enduring Indispensability of the Controlled Comparison (2013) (150)
- An Institutional Theory of Direct and Indirect Rule (2011) (144)
- Conservative Parties and the Birth of Modern Democracy in Europe (2017) (135)
- Does Landholding Inequality Block Democratization?: A Test of the "Bread and Democracy" Thesis and the Case of Prussia (2008) (135)
- Social Stratification and Welfare Regimes for the Twenty-first Century: Revisiting The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (2008) (132)
- How Did Europe Democratize? (2006) (105)
- V-Dem Codebook V10 (2020) (98)
- Why Some Cities Provide More Public Goods than Others: A Subnational Comparison of the Provision of Public Goods in German Cities in 1912 (2008) (95)
- Structuring the State (2008) (66)
- V-Dem Codebook v11 (2021) (63)
- Does Decentralisation Make Government More Efficient and Effective? (2006) (62)
- Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (2017) (57)
- Rethinking the Origins of Federalism: Puzzle, Theory, and Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Europe (2004) (57)
- Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe One Hundred Years On (2012) (41)
- V-Dem Dataset V10 (2020) (41)
- An Introduction to Special Issue (2017) (38)
- Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy dataset: Political institutions in the long 19th century (2018) (34)
- V-Dem Dataset v11.1 (2021) (32)
- The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies (2010) (32)
- How Did Britain Democratize? Views from the Sovereign Bond Market (2015) (32)
- Recasting German federalism? The politics of fiscal decentralization in post-unification Germany (2002) (28)
- The Adaptation of Ex-Communist Parties to Post-Communist East Central Europe: a Comparative Study of the East German and Hungarian Ex-Communist Parties (1998) (27)
- A More Efficient and Accountable Federalism? An Analysis of the Consequences of Germany's 2006 Constitutional Reform (2008) (24)
- Center-Right Political Parties in Advanced Democracies (2019) (23)
- V-Dem Dataset V8 (2018) (23)
- How do voters perceive changes to the rules of the game? Evidence from the 2014 Hungarian elections (2018) (20)
- Putting Humpty-Dumpty Back Together Again: Communism’s Collapse and the Reconstruction of the East German Ex-Communist Party (1998) (18)
- Authoritarian-Led Democratization (2020) (17)
- The Rise of Subnational and Multilevel Comparative Politics (2010) (12)
- Of Course Generalize, But How? Returning to Middle Range Theory in Comparative Politics (2006) (12)
- Honecker's Revenge: The Enduring Legacy of German Unification in the 2005 Election (2006) (10)
- SHAPING DEMOCRATIC PRACTICE AND THE CAUSES OF ELECTORAL FRAUD: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM PRE-1914 GERMANY (2009) (9)
- Why Some Cities Provide More Public Goods Than Others: A Subnational Comparison of German Cities in 1912 (2008) (6)
- Shaping Democratic Practice and the Causes of Electoral Fraud: The Case of Germany Before 1914 (2009) (5)
- Doomed to be Radicals? Organization, Ideology, and Communist Successor Parties in Post-Communist East Central Europe (2002) (5)
- Review Article HOW DID EUROPE DEMOCRATIZE (2006) (4)
- Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany (2020) (4)
- Between centralization and federalism in the European Union (2013) (3)
- The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies: A new research program and evidence from Europe (2010) (3)
- How Voters Respond to Presidential Assaults on Checks and Balances: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey (2022) (3)
- Capital Meets Democracy: Representative Institutions and the Rise of Mass Suffrage in Sovereign Bond Markets (2016) (2)
- Rethinking Federalism’s Origins: Puzzle, Theory, and Evidence from Nineteenth Century Europe (2004) (2)
- Federalism and the Welfare State: New World and European Experiences and Decentralizing the State: Elections, Parties, and Local Power in the Andes (2006) (1)
- Slouching towards Authoritarianism? evidence from survey experiments around the 2014 Hungarian elections (2015) (1)
- Aftershocks: Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century. By Seva Gunitsky. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 304p. $95.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. (2019) (1)
- The Unsettled Path: Conservative Weakness in Weimar Germany, 1918-1928 (2017) (1)
- A Missing Historical Variable? The Long-Run Effects of Landholding Inequality on German Elections, 1895-2009 (2012) (1)
- Parochialism, place-based identity and radical-right voting (2020) (1)
- Methodology V10 (2020) (1)
- The power and limits of federalism (2018) (1)
- APPENDIX B. Origins of Federalism Data on Seventeen Largest West European Nation-States (2006) (0)
- Parties of the Electoral Right by Country, 1918-1939 (2017) (0)
- Dying Swans: The Role of Conservative Political Parties in Europe's Long-Run Democratization (2014) (0)
- CHAPTER SIX. From Strong Regional Loyalties to a Federal System: National Unification by Negotiation and the Case of Germany (2006) (0)
- Weak Party Conservatism and the Case of Germany (2017) (0)
- The Historical Turn in the Study of Democratization: A New Research Agenda for Europe and Beyond (2010) (0)
- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: How Nation-States Are Made (2006) (0)
- Capital Meets Democracy: Sovereign Bond Markets and the Rise of Mass Suffrage (2017) (0)
- A Deluge: Conservative Weakness and Democratic Breakdown in Germany (2017) (0)
- The Old Regime and the Conservative Dilemma (2017) (0)
- Two Patterns of Democratization (2017) (0)
- Other Books in the Series (2017) (0)
- CHAPTER TWO. The National Critical Juncture: An Overview of the Dynamics of Regionalism and National Unification (2006) (0)
- Parochialism and voting for the radical-right : How cultural “ remoteness ” a ects voting behavior in Germany (2019) (0)
- FEDERALISM IN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA Conceptualization, Causes, and Consequences (2008) (0)
- Response to Seva Gunitsky’s review of Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (2019) (0)
- Political development in historical perspective (2018) (0)
- Doomed to be Radicals? (2020) (0)
- The Ideological Metamorphsis of Former Communist Parties: Lessons from East Central Europe (1999) (0)
- CHAPTER FIVE. From Strong Regional Loyalties to a Unitary System: National Unification by Conquest and the Case of Italy (2006) (0)
- Regression Results for Figure 6.3 (2017) (0)
- Stalled Democratization in Germany Before 1914 (2017) (0)
- The Contributors (2006) (0)
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Conclusion: The Politics of Federalism and Institution Building in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond (2006) (0)
- A Virtuous Cycle? Conservative Strength and Britain's Settled Path, 1884-1906 (2017) (0)
- Capital Meets Democracy: Representative Institutions and Sovereign Risk in the Rise of Mass Suffrage (2016) (0)
- Comparative Political Studies Giovanni Capoccia and Daniel Ziblatt Agenda for Europe and Beyond The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies : A New Research (2010) (0)
- The Layered State (2015) (0)
- APPENDIX A. Prenational German and Italian States, 1850s–1860s (2006) (0)
- How Countries Democratize: Europe and Beyond (2017) (0)
- Averting a Democratic Disaster in Britain, 1906–1922 (2017) (0)
- Capital Meets Democracy: The Impact of Franchise Extension on Sovereign Bond Markets (2016) (0)
- CHAPTER FOUR. The National Moment in Italy: The Dynamics of Regionalism and National Unification, 1815–1860 (2006) (0)
- Il Perché dell’Assenza di Federalismo in Italia: Una Prospettiva Storica Comparata (Why is there no Federalism in Italy? A Comparative Historical Perspective) (2006) (0)
- $Q,QVWLWXWLRQDO7KHRU\RI'LUHF WDQG,QGLUHFW5XOH (2014) (0)
- The Contributors (2011) (0)
- Angie! Angie! The Transformation of German Politics After Merkel’s Election (2006) (0)
- From 1688 to Mass Politics: British Democratization (2017) (0)
- The Professionalization of Political Party Organization in Britain, 1894 (2017) (0)
- Election Fraud and Contested Congressional Elections: An Analysis of the United States, 1840-1940 (2011) (0)
- What Do We Know about Democratization? Lessons from History (2010) (0)
- CHAPTER THREE. The National Moment in Germany: The Dynamics of Regionalism and National Unification, 1834–1871 (2006) (0)
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