Bio

Daniel Ziblatt is the Eaton Professor of Government at Harvard University and director of Harvard University's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He also leads a research group on democracy and democratic erosion at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center in Germany. 

Ziblatt teaches and researches on democracy, the political history of Europe, and is the author of several influential books on democracy and state-building, including two New York Times best sellers, How Democracies Die (2018) and Tyranny of the Minority (2023), co-authored with Steven Levitsky. The former, translated into over thirty languages, has been described by The Economist magazine as "...the most important book of the Trump era."  Ziblatt's earlier work includes Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (2017), an account of the historical development of democracy in 19th- and 20th-century Europe, awarded the Woodrow Wilson Prize by the American Political Science Association and the Barrington Moore Prize by the American Sociological Association.  His writing appears regularly 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)