About the Department

Daniel Ziblatt has received the Mary Parker Follett Award for Best Article published in 2010 in Politics and History, given by the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association. The title of the article is “The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies: A New Research Agenda for Europe and Beyond”, co-authored with Giovanni Capoccia (Oxford) and published in Comparative Political Studies in August 2010.  The article is the introduction to a double special issue of the journal entitled The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies, and develops a new approach to the historical study of processes of democratization. The award ceremony will take place at the upcoming APSA Annual Convention in Seattle in September 2011.