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Daniel Ziblatt is an Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University and a Faculty Associate of Harvard's Center for European Studies. His research/teaching interests include comparative politics, state-building, democratization, federalism, contemporary European politics, European political development and comparative historical methods. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy, 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 American Political Science Association.
He is currently writing a book tentatively entitled The Long Transition on the historical rise of free and fair elections and democratization in Europe and North America. Most recently, from this new project, his paper "Rural Inequality and Electoral Authoritarianism" has been awarded APSA's 2008 prize for the best paper presented at APSA in 2007 by the Comparative Politics Section of APSA.
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