Daniel Ziblatt is the Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Government at Harvard University and a Faculty Associate of Harvard's Center for European Studies.
His interests include comparative politics,
democratization, state formation, elections in new democracies and authoritarian regimes, federalism, contemporary Europe, European
political development and comparative-historical methods. He is the author of Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy, Germany, and the Puzzle of Federalism,
(Princeton University Press, 2006), awarded three major
prizes by the American Political Science Association (the Gabriel Almond Dissertation Prize, the Ernst Haas Dissertation Prize, and the
2007 award for Best Book in European Politics and Society). He is currently writing a book entitled The Long Transition that offers a new interpretation of the historical democratization of Europe. Some of his most recent work has appeared in the American Political Science Review and in the World Politics.
(The latter was awarded the 2008 best paper prize presented at APSA's
annual convention by APSA Comparative Politics Section). Ziblatt co-directs Harvard's Seminar on Comparative Historical Analysis
