Eaton Professor of Government & Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Harvard University

Daniel Ziblatt is the Eaton Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. Since 2020, he has also led a research group on the study of democracy at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center in Germany. A political scientist, his work focuses on the historical development of democracy and authoritarianism in Europe and the United States.

He is co-author with Steven Levitsky of How Democracies Die (2018), a New York Times best-seller translated into over thirty languages and described by The Economist magazine as "the most important book of the Trump era." His follow up book (also w/ Steven Levitsky) Tyranny of the Minority (2023), was also a New York Times bestseller. 

Ziblatt's earlier work includes the prize-winning Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (2017), which offered a new interpretation of the historical rise and collapse of democracy in 19th- and 20th-century Europe and Structuring the State (2006), a comparative study of state-building in 19th century Italy and Germany.  His writing  has appeared appear in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Die Zeit, and other publications.

Ziblatt is a Fellow of the the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2023) and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (elected 2025)