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Daniel Ziblatt

 

Daniel Ziblatt

Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy
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 Center for European Studies
27 Kirkland St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dziblatt/
Office Hours: Monday, 2-4 pm and by appoint.

Biographical Note:

Daniel Ziblatt is the Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. His research and teaching interests are in comparative politics, state-building, democratization, elections in authoritarian regimes and new democracies, federalism, historical methods, with a particular interest in contemporary Europe and European political development. He is the author of "Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism" (Princeton University Press, 2006), the winner of three major prizes from the American Political Science Association, including the 2007 Prize for the Best Book published on European Politics. He has published articles in journals including the American Political Science Review, Studies in Comparative International Development, and World Politics. He is currently writing a book entitled "The Long Transition," that offers a new interpretation of the historical democratization of Europe. Ziblatt is Faculty Associate of the Center for European Studies, Institute of Quantitative Social Science, and the Weatherhead Center for International Studies, and has also been an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Society (Cologne, Germany) and at the University of Konstanz (Germany).