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Daniel Ziblatt
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Eaton Professor of Government & Director, Center for European Studies @Harvard/ WZB Berlin/author of 'Tyranny of the Minority', 'How Democracies Die', & 'Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.'

Daniel Ziblatt is an American political scientist who has been Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University since 2018.

Source: Wikipedia
Political science 71%
Sociology 12%
Some reflections from me on January 6 in comparative and historical perspective (first time on substack)

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January 6 in Historical Perspective
January 6, 2026
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Reposted by David R. Miller

What happens when democracy dies in a global hegemon?
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If you want to see what innovation in political communication looks like, this is it:
youtu.be/xj89tYvwr6k?...
THE MAYOR IS LISTENING
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
youtu.be

Reposted by Daniel Ziblatt

What the data revealed about American democracy in 2025. And a path forward for 2026.
On Data and Democracy 2025 Year-in-Review Visualized
Tracing the money, the ideological purges, the strategic debates, and the court battles: A visual deep-dive into the data of 2025 and charting an empirical roadmap for a more resilient democracy.
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Reposted by Jeffrey Kopstein

Theda Skocpol :

"I would call it a corrupt patrimonial regime. There’s a book by a couple of political scientists [The Assault on the State (Hanson & Kopstein, 2024)] that I find even more convincing than the analyses of some of my historical-institutional allies"

@jeffkopstein.bsky.social
Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend.

Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it.

sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...
View of Theda Skocpol in Conversation with Edwin Amenta on Sociology, Political Science, Higher Education, and U.S. Politics | Sociologica
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Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend.

Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it.

sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...
View of Theda Skocpol in Conversation with Edwin Amenta on Sociology, Political Science, Higher Education, and U.S. Politics | Sociologica
sociologica.unibo.it

This sounds like a shakedown

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
Trump Halts 5 Wind Farms Off the East Coast
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These east German numbers on afd support are remarkable. A complete failure of grass roots mobilization of CDU, SPD etc. Utter failure.

Reposted by Noah L. Nathan

New out today

Reposted by Daniel Ziblatt

From October 2025 -

The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination - cup.org/3WCwC5v

- Nourhan A. Elsayed, @hannohilbig.bsky.social, @riazsascha.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

Today we are hosting this event as part of our new series "Europe in a Time of War" @europeatharvard.bsky.social

"In the space of a generation, then, the Supreme Court’s attitude toward partisan gerrymandering has shifted from tolerating it as a necessary evil to embracing it as savvy politics."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

Our (Boston) mayor!
An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜

🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜

🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.

US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.

open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...