Prof. Dr. Daniel Ziblatt

Daniel Ziblatt is the director of Harvard University's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies where he is also Eaton Professor of Government at Harvard University. His research focuses on Europe and the comparative study of democracy. He is the author of four books, including How Democracies Die (2018), co-authored with Steven Levitsky, a New York Times best-seller and described by The Economist magazine as "the most important book of the Trump era." The book has been translated into thirty languages. In 2023, he published Tyranny of the Minority (w/ Steven Levitsky), an analysis of American democracy in comparative perspective, also a New York Times bestseller.