WZB Democracy
@wzbdemocracy.bsky.social
Transformations of Democracy unit at WZB Berlin - Director Daniel Ziblatt https://wzb.eu/en/research/dynamics-of-political-systems/transformations-of-democracy
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US-Senator Merkley liest derzeit bereits 20 Stunden lang „Wie Demokratien sterben“ im Senat – von @dziblatt.bsky.social. Am 8.11. bei uns im GORKI Theater!
October 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
US-Senator Merkley liest derzeit bereits 20 Stunden lang „Wie Demokratien sterben“ im Senat – von @dziblatt.bsky.social. Am 8.11. bei uns im GORKI Theater!
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We are excited that our first annual interdisciplinary WZB conference "The Future of #Democracy?" starts this evening with a public dialogue on "Democracy at Stake", featuring U.S. Democrat @betoorourke.bsky.social and @annaluehrmann.bsky.social at Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
October 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We are excited that our first annual interdisciplinary WZB conference "The Future of #Democracy?" starts this evening with a public dialogue on "Democracy at Stake", featuring U.S. Democrat @betoorourke.bsky.social and @annaluehrmann.bsky.social at Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
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What a moving evening at the Academy of Arts: @betoorourke.bsky.social, U.S. Democrat from Texas, and @annaluehrmann.bsky.social (Die Grünen) offered convincing analyses about the state of democracy on both sides of the Atlantic, providing critical yet hopeful perspectives.
📸Bernhard Ludewig
📸Bernhard Ludewig
October 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
What a moving evening at the Academy of Arts: @betoorourke.bsky.social, U.S. Democrat from Texas, and @annaluehrmann.bsky.social (Die Grünen) offered convincing analyses about the state of democracy on both sides of the Atlantic, providing critical yet hopeful perspectives.
📸Bernhard Ludewig
📸Bernhard Ludewig
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So thrilled that @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellow @boesevanessa.bsky.social has received this prestigious and important grant for important work on the global evolution of democracy.
Congratulation, @boesevanessa.bsky.social! The WZB researcher has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for her work on regime types and socioeconomic interactions.
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@vdeminstitute.bsky.social @dziblatt.bsky.social @blfirestone.bsky.social
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@vdeminstitute.bsky.social @dziblatt.bsky.social @blfirestone.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
So thrilled that @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellow @boesevanessa.bsky.social has received this prestigious and important grant for important work on the global evolution of democracy.
Warnings From Weimar
Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.
www.foreignaffairs.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Vicente Valentim, Elias Dinas, & I came together to do this paper because we have all long shared an intution: mainstream center-right rhetoric shapes democratic norms. The hard part? Showing it empirically. We make some headway in this new paper. Grateful to @bjpols.bsky.social for publishing.
NEW -
How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD
"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"
- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD
"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"
- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
August 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Vicente Valentim, Elias Dinas, & I came together to do this paper because we have all long shared an intution: mainstream center-right rhetoric shapes democratic norms. The hard part? Showing it empirically. We make some headway in this new paper. Grateful to @bjpols.bsky.social for publishing.
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Events such as these are what motivates me to pursue an academic career.
Thanks to @fabioellger.bsky.social @hannohilbig.bsky.social @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social for hosting us & to all participants for constructive feedback on @antonkoenneke.de & my paper, and the great vibes. C u ➡ summer!
Thanks to @fabioellger.bsky.social @hannohilbig.bsky.social @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social for hosting us & to all participants for constructive feedback on @antonkoenneke.de & my paper, and the great vibes. C u ➡ summer!
Excited to host the 4th iteration of the Transformations of Democracy Junior Scholars Workshop at WZB Berlin together with Hanno Hilbig!
Amazing talks & exchanges with colleagues from Princeton, Harvard, UC Davis, Toulouse School of Economics, Copenhagen, Humboldt, Chemnitz, EUI, and beyond..
Amazing talks & exchanges with colleagues from Princeton, Harvard, UC Davis, Toulouse School of Economics, Copenhagen, Humboldt, Chemnitz, EUI, and beyond..
August 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Events such as these are what motivates me to pursue an academic career.
Thanks to @fabioellger.bsky.social @hannohilbig.bsky.social @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social for hosting us & to all participants for constructive feedback on @antonkoenneke.de & my paper, and the great vibes. C u ➡ summer!
Thanks to @fabioellger.bsky.social @hannohilbig.bsky.social @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social for hosting us & to all participants for constructive feedback on @antonkoenneke.de & my paper, and the great vibes. C u ➡ summer!
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Excited to host the 4th iteration of the Transformations of Democracy Junior Scholars Workshop at WZB Berlin together with Hanno Hilbig!
Amazing talks & exchanges with colleagues from Princeton, Harvard, UC Davis, Toulouse School of Economics, Copenhagen, Humboldt, Chemnitz, EUI, and beyond..
Amazing talks & exchanges with colleagues from Princeton, Harvard, UC Davis, Toulouse School of Economics, Copenhagen, Humboldt, Chemnitz, EUI, and beyond..
August 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Excited to host the 4th iteration of the Transformations of Democracy Junior Scholars Workshop at WZB Berlin together with Hanno Hilbig!
Amazing talks & exchanges with colleagues from Princeton, Harvard, UC Davis, Toulouse School of Economics, Copenhagen, Humboldt, Chemnitz, EUI, and beyond..
Amazing talks & exchanges with colleagues from Princeton, Harvard, UC Davis, Toulouse School of Economics, Copenhagen, Humboldt, Chemnitz, EUI, and beyond..
The WZB Transformations of Democracy unit hosted a great workshop on how ideas of Democracy evolve over time . A great group & lots of scholarly progress.
July 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The WZB Transformations of Democracy unit hosted a great workshop on how ideas of Democracy evolve over time . A great group & lots of scholarly progress.
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Need a measure of #democraticstock for your analyses?
@acrowinghen.bsky.social Matthew Wilson & I just published the demstock R package & @vdeminstitute.bsky.social working paper
It lets you create stock measures of most of the variables included in the V-Dem dataset 😃 🥳
Try it out!🙃
@acrowinghen.bsky.social Matthew Wilson & I just published the demstock R package & @vdeminstitute.bsky.social working paper
It lets you create stock measures of most of the variables included in the V-Dem dataset 😃 🥳
Try it out!🙃
Want to explore how history shapes democracy, test big-picture theories, or pick case studies based on historical experience?
Introducing 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗸 - a new R package and #VDemInstitute #WorkingPaper.
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#Polisky #ResearchData #StockData #PoliticalScience
#PoliSciSky #demstock #DemocracyResearch
Introducing 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗸 - a new R package and #VDemInstitute #WorkingPaper.
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#Polisky #ResearchData #StockData #PoliticalScience
#PoliSciSky #demstock #DemocracyResearch
May 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Need a measure of #democraticstock for your analyses?
@acrowinghen.bsky.social Matthew Wilson & I just published the demstock R package & @vdeminstitute.bsky.social working paper
It lets you create stock measures of most of the variables included in the V-Dem dataset 😃 🥳
Try it out!🙃
@acrowinghen.bsky.social Matthew Wilson & I just published the demstock R package & @vdeminstitute.bsky.social working paper
It lets you create stock measures of most of the variables included in the V-Dem dataset 😃 🥳
Try it out!🙃
New op ed by @dziblatt.bsky.social and co authors
How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM
New op ed by @dziblatt.bsky.social and co authors
How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Great new paper by our own @fabioellger.bsky.social and co authors @jeyalizade.bsky.social , @mgruenewald.bsky.social and @ttichelbaecker.bsky.social
Happy to share a new paper now out in EJPR w/ @jeyalizade.bsky.social , @fabioellger.bsky.social and @mgruenewald.bsky.social exploring gendered effects of political violence on political supply.
https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6765.70017
A 🧵 with findings
https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6765.70017
A 🧵 with findings
May 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Great new paper by our own @fabioellger.bsky.social and co authors @jeyalizade.bsky.social , @mgruenewald.bsky.social and @ttichelbaecker.bsky.social
Our IPI-TD speakers series continues next week May 6 with Professor Dan Slater (University of Michigan), presenting
“Battles for Pluralism: Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Great Democratic Unknown”.
@dnsltr.bsky.social
“Battles for Pluralism: Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Great Democratic Unknown”.
@dnsltr.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Our IPI-TD speakers series continues next week May 6 with Professor Dan Slater (University of Michigan), presenting
“Battles for Pluralism: Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Great Democratic Unknown”.
@dnsltr.bsky.social
“Battles for Pluralism: Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Great Democratic Unknown”.
@dnsltr.bsky.social
/1 Some news from our unit. A new and exciting paper from @blfirestone.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
...with an accompanying and innovative public event
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
...with an accompanying and innovative public event
Participating in a Digital-History Project Mobilizes People for Symbolic Justice and Better Intergroup Relations Today - Ruth Ditlmann, Berenike Firestone, Oguzhan Turkoglu, 2025
Awareness of past atrocities is widely seen as critical for restoring justice and building resilient democracies. Going beyond information provision, an increas...
journals.sagepub.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
/1 Some news from our unit. A new and exciting paper from @blfirestone.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
...with an accompanying and innovative public event
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
...with an accompanying and innovative public event
A call for papers!!!
The @wzb.bsky.social in Berlin is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on the future of democracy this October. The deadline for paper submissions is a week from now (April 30, 12pm EST). More info here: www.wzb.eu/en/events/1s...
1st Annual Interdisciplinary WZB Conference
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www.wzb.eu
April 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
A call for papers!!!
1/ Our unit's new working paper by Daniel Ziblatt, Florian Bochert, Wolfgang Schroeder, on the surprising * endurance * of the firewall in Germany against the Radical right-- has been written up in the national weekly DER SPIEGEL...
March 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
1/ Our unit's new working paper by Daniel Ziblatt, Florian Bochert, Wolfgang Schroeder, on the surprising * endurance * of the firewall in Germany against the Radical right-- has been written up in the national weekly DER SPIEGEL...
Pleased to announce our semester speaker series!
March 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Pleased to announce our semester speaker series!
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In a democracy, when and where should majorities rule? And when should their powers be limited? Steve Levitsky and I propose a framework to think through these questions in a new piece in the January 2025 issue of 'Journal of Democracy'
muse.jhu.edu/article/947880
muse.jhu.edu/article/947880
January 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
In a democracy, when and where should majorities rule? And when should their powers be limited? Steve Levitsky and I propose a framework to think through these questions in a new piece in the January 2025 issue of 'Journal of Democracy'
muse.jhu.edu/article/947880
muse.jhu.edu/article/947880
📻 Radio interview mit @dziblatt.bsky.social im Deutschlandfunk
▶️ www.deutschlandfunk.de/wenn-minderh...
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Bedrohte Demokratie: Wenn Minderheiten den Diskurs bestimmen
Der Politologe Daniel Ziblatt beschreibt in "Die Tyrannei der Minderheit", wie wenige über viele herrschen, zeigt aber auch Lösungen auf.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
May 13, 2024 at 8:48 AM
📻 Radio interview mit @dziblatt.bsky.social im Deutschlandfunk
▶️ www.deutschlandfunk.de/wenn-minderh...
▶️ www.deutschlandfunk.de/wenn-minderh...
📰 Interview mit @dziblatt.bsky.social und Steven Levitsky in @spiegelmagazin.bsky.social [paywall]
▶️ www.spiegel.de/ausland/demo...
▶️ www.spiegel.de/ausland/demo...
(S+) Demokratie in den USA: »Unser System ist einfach nicht fair«
Das amerikanische Wahlsystem repräsentiert nicht den Willen des einzelnen Bürgers, sagen die Harvard-Professoren Steven Levitsky und Daniel Ziblatt. Davon profitieren ausgerechnet die Republikaner um ...
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May 13, 2024 at 8:46 AM
📰 Interview mit @dziblatt.bsky.social und Steven Levitsky in @spiegelmagazin.bsky.social [paywall]
▶️ www.spiegel.de/ausland/demo...
▶️ www.spiegel.de/ausland/demo...
"Die Vereinigten Staaten laufen Gefahr, in eine Minderheitsherrschaft abzugleiten." Gastbeitrag von @dziblatt.bsky.social und Steven Levitsky in @zeit.de
➡️ www.zeit.de/2024/21/radi...
➡️ www.zeit.de/2024/21/radi...
May 13, 2024 at 8:39 AM
"Die Vereinigten Staaten laufen Gefahr, in eine Minderheitsherrschaft abzugleiten." Gastbeitrag von @dziblatt.bsky.social und Steven Levitsky in @zeit.de
➡️ www.zeit.de/2024/21/radi...
➡️ www.zeit.de/2024/21/radi...
Ist Amerikas Demokratie noch zu retten? @dziblatt.bsky.social war zu Gast bei ttt - titel thesen temperamente ARD
Hier geht's zum Clip: www.daserste.de/information/...
Hier geht's zum Clip: www.daserste.de/information/...
"Die Tyrannei der Minderheit" – Ist Amerikas Demokratie noch zu retten? | ttt – titel, thesen, temperamente
Donald Trumps alter und neuer Wahlspruch "Make America great again" wird in Europa weithin als Aufruf verstanden, dass die USA ihre Rolle als globale Supermacht erneuern wollen. Aber diese Losung muss...
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May 3, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Ist Amerikas Demokratie noch zu retten? @dziblatt.bsky.social war zu Gast bei ttt - titel thesen temperamente ARD
Hier geht's zum Clip: www.daserste.de/information/...
Hier geht's zum Clip: www.daserste.de/information/...
🗓️ Event Empfehlung: "Demokratie unter Druck: Was sie schwächt, was sie stärkt" mit @dziblatt.bsky.social und @ardenthistorian.bsky.social am 23. Mai um 18 Uhr im @wzb.bsky.social
Mehr Infos und Anmeldung ➡️ www.wzb.eu/de/veranstal...
Mehr Infos und Anmeldung ➡️ www.wzb.eu/de/veranstal...
Demokratie unter Druck: Was sie schwächt, was sie stärkt
Wahlen in Deutschland und Amerika: Daniel Ziblatt und Annika Brockschmidt im Gespräch
www.wzb.eu
May 3, 2024 at 12:24 PM
🗓️ Event Empfehlung: "Demokratie unter Druck: Was sie schwächt, was sie stärkt" mit @dziblatt.bsky.social und @ardenthistorian.bsky.social am 23. Mai um 18 Uhr im @wzb.bsky.social
Mehr Infos und Anmeldung ➡️ www.wzb.eu/de/veranstal...
Mehr Infos und Anmeldung ➡️ www.wzb.eu/de/veranstal...
🚩 Wir haben Neuigkeiten: Am 15. Mai erscheint "Die Tyrannei der Minderheit" von @dziblatt.bsky.social und Steven Levitsky auf deutsch!
Alle Infos ➡️ www.penguin.de/Buch/Die-Tyr...
Alle Infos ➡️ www.penguin.de/Buch/Die-Tyr...
May 3, 2024 at 12:14 PM
🚩 Wir haben Neuigkeiten: Am 15. Mai erscheint "Die Tyrannei der Minderheit" von @dziblatt.bsky.social und Steven Levitsky auf deutsch!
Alle Infos ➡️ www.penguin.de/Buch/Die-Tyr...
Alle Infos ➡️ www.penguin.de/Buch/Die-Tyr...