Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt.bsky.social

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Eaton Professor of Government & Director, Center for European Studies @Harvard/ WZB Berlin/author of 'Tyranny of the Minority', 'How Democracies Die', & 'Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.'

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Daniel Ziblatt·4d

A wonderful piece by our Center for European Studies Senior Scholar Leah Zell. @europeatharvard.bsky.social ces.fas.harvard.edu/news/2026/08...

Daniel Ziblatt·Jul 15

Brings to mind this idea this sharp idea: "Power manifests itself in the regime's ability to impose its fictions upon the world. No one is deceived by the charade, but everyone is forced to participate in it" From Lisa Wedeen's brilliant book Ambiguities of Domination on Assad's Syria

Daniel Ziblatt·Jul 5

Where I am interviewed in my local Sonoma County newspaper along with eight other northern Californians www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/07/04/w...

Daniel Ziblatt·Jun 29

Some news: Based on work out of the @wzb.bsky.social earlier this year Nourhan Elsayed, Hanno Hilbig, Sascha Riaz, & I published this on how communist era schooling in Germany affects attitudes today in the "British Journal of Political Science." A quick summary www.cambridge.org/core/journal...