About the Department
Daniel Ziblatt
Daniel Ziblatt
Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy
Comparative
On Leave Fall 2009
Daniel Ziblatt is the Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. His research and teaching is in comparative politics and comparative historical analysis, focusing on state-building, democratization, elections, and federalism, 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 is currently writing a book entitled The Long Transition that offers a new interpretation of the historical democratization of Europe. His most recent work has been published in the American Poiltical Science Review and World Politics. The latter paper was awarded APSA's 2009 Luebbert Prize for the best paper published in comparative politics and the 2008 Sage prize for best paper presented in comparative politics at the Annual APSA meeting. Ziblatt is on the editorial board of the journal German Politics and Society and has been a DAAD Fellow in Berlin and an Alexander von Humboldt visiting fellow at several leading institutions in Germany.
Recent Papers:
| Does Landholding Inequality Block Democratization? A Test of the 'Bread and Democracy' Thesis and the Case of Prussia | World Politics 60 (4) (2008) |
| Shaping Democratic Practice and the Causes of Electoral Fraud: The Case of 19th Century Germany" | American Political Science Review 103 (1) (2009) |
Email Address
dziblatt@gov.harvard.edu
Phone
617-495-4303
Office Location
Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Office Hours
Tuesdays, 1-5 pm and by appoint
