Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

Daniel Ziblatt

Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies, Undergraduate Scholars Program

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Daniel Ziblatt (PhD, University California-Berkeley, 2002) is an Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University. His research and teaching focus on comparative politics, state-building, democratization, and federalism, with a particular interest in contemporary Europe and European political development. In addition to many articles, he is the author of the book ""Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy, Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism"" (Princeton University Press, 2006), awarded in 2007 the American Political Science Association's prize for the best book in European Politics. The book is based on a dissertation that received two additional awards from the APSA (the Gabriel Almond award in comparative politics and the European Politics Division award). He has recently begun several new projects, focusing on democratization, electoral reform, voting rights, and politics of public goods provision in Europe.