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Daniel Ziblatt

 

Daniel Ziblatt

Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies
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 Center for European Studies
27 Kirkland St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dziblatt/
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 1-5 pm and by appoint.

Biographical Note:

Daniel Ziblatt is Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University. His research and teaching focus on comparative politics, state-building, democratization, federalism, and comparative-historical methods, with a particular interest in contemporary Europe and European political development. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of "Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism," (Princeton University Press, 2006) awarded the American Political Science Association's 2007 Prize for the Best Book published on European Politics. The book is based on a dissertation that also won the Gabriel Almond Prize (2004) and the Ernst Haas Prize (2003) from the APSA. He is currently writing a book tentatively entitled "The Long Transition," on the historical rise of free and fair elections and democracy in Europe and North America . Ziblatt is Faculty Associate of Harvard's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard's Weatherhead Center, and has been a DAAD and Social Science Research Council visiting fellow in Berlin, Germany and most recently an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Society (Cologne, Germany) as well at the University of Konstanz (Germany). For more information on Structuring the State: www.structuringthestate.googlepages.com