{"id":7682,"date":"2024-09-15T10:38:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T14:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/?p=7682"},"modified":"2024-10-01T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T21:48:08","slug":"ziblatt-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/2024-event\/ziblatt-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyranny of the Minority\u2014and How to Repair our Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Ziblatt is the director of Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies<\/a> where he is also Eaton Professor of Government at Harvard University. He leads a research group based in Germany at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center<\/a>.  His research focuses on Europe and the comparative study of democracy. He is the author of four books, including How Democracies Die<\/a> (2018), co-authored with Steven Levitsky, a New York Times<\/em> best-seller and  described by The Economist<\/em> magazine as “the most important book of the Trump era.” The book has been translated into thirty languages. <\/em>In 2023, he published Tyranny of the Minority<\/a> (w\/ Steve Levitsky), an analysis of American democracy in comparative perspective, also a New York Times <\/em>bestseller. Prior to this, he was the author of the prize-winning book Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy <\/a>(Cambridge University Press, 2017), a history of democracy in Europe, in addition to a book on European state-building entitled Structuring the State <\/a>(Princeton University Press, 2006).  In 2023, Ziblatt was elected member of the American Academy for Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n2024 Speaker List<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daniel Ziblatt<\/strong>
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