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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

7 months

Thank you. #10 on New York Times bestseller list. Nice to receive the hardcopy on my doorstep

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

7 months

The prospect of Jim Jordan becoming Speaker of the House makes me more worried about American democracy than anything I have seen in over two years.

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2 years

I have spent alot of my career studying what happens when conservatives fully go off the rails. This is one of those moments

G.O.P. Declares Jan. 6 Attack ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’ (Published 2022)

The Republican National Committee voted to censure Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for participating in the inquiry into the deadly riot at the Capitol.

www.nytimes.com

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1 year

CNN putting Donald Trump on the air for hours before an adoring and applauding crowd is recklessness on an unbelievable scale.

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Daniel Ziblatt

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3 years

Let' be clear: Many of America's major moments of democratization have been distinctly not bipartisan.

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3 years

If The Economist says (1/9/2021) it, it must be true

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

10 months

Friends: I’m pleased to announce that Tyranny of the Minority, my new book with @levitsky2 is out on 9/12. Preorder your copy here

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Daniel Ziblatt

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3 years

Not all good things are bipartisan

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4 years

From How Democracies Die

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9 months

A box arrived in the mail today. It is surprisingly moving to hold the physical thing in your hands. Especially this one. On sale Sept 12.

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9 months

Once upon a time, this was a controversial op-ed in the @nytimes

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

7 months

Look to Poland today to see the power of majority rule: how the hard work of cobbling together majorities can defeat an authoritarian minority faction

Opposition declares victory in Poland election while vote count continues

A win by Donald Tusk and the opposition would mean a dramatic shift for Poland, where the Law and Justice party has rolled back democracy during eight years in power.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

7 months

One of the reasons we wrote Tyranny of the Minority was to warn about the accomplices (Jordan) to the direct assailants of democracy if given access to power. Consider the ominous history of the assault on France's parliament Feb 6 1934, with this excerpt from our book

Aaron Rupar

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CRENSHAW: Jordan has become part of the solution. Not part of the problem TAPPER: I mean, he defied a congressional subpoena and tried to get Pence to overturn the electoral votes CRENSHAW: But a lot of them did that. If I held that grudge, I wouldn't have friends in the GOP

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Daniel Ziblatt

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3 years

Just ordered this. Recommend you do too

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

3 years

"Biden became obsessed w/ two books: “How Democracies Die,” by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, & “White Working Class,” by Joan C. Williams. He carried both everywhere, scrawling notes on the pages and pulling out well-worn copies to share passages.

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

2 years

Usually antidemocratic parties disguise themselves. Rarely do they advertise openly they are against democracy. The Texas GOP announces it opposes one of the major democratic reforms of past 60 years- a law the GOP almost unanimously supported until 2006. We have been warned.

(((Rob Mickey)))

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Texas GOP Platform: "We urge that the Voting Rights Act of 1965, codified and updated in 1973, be repealed and not reauthorized."

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Daniel Ziblatt

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After the feb 6 (1934) violent assault on the French parliament, conservative elites turned the assailants into victims and heroes. What happened next?

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

8 months

It's one thing to be ambitious; that's ordinary politics. It's another to let your ambition blind you to overt threats to democracy. That's called "democratic semiloyalty"-- the banality of authoritarianism. And its what gets democracies into trouble. See

Tyranny of the Minority by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt: 9780593443071 | PenguinRandomHouse.com:...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the authors of How Democracies Die “[Levitsky and Ziblatt]...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

John Harwood

@JohnJHarwood

8 months

"What bothered Romney most was the oily disingenuousness. "They were too smart to actually think Trump won. "Hawley and Cruz 'were making a calculation,' Romney said, 'that put politics above the interests of liberal democracy and the Constitution.' "

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Daniel Ziblatt

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4 years

Before "How Democracies Die" I spent 10 years of my life writing a 427- page dense, scholarly book with 28 figures, 22 tables on 19th century conservatives. I will admit, it honestly took my breath away a bit to see the New York Times Editorial Board cite it in today's editorial.

Michiko Kakutani

@michikokakutani

4 years

NYT Editorial Board: “RIP, GOP”: Trump has accelerated his party’s demise “leaving it a hollowed-out shell devoid of ideas, values or integrity, committed solely to preserving its own power even at the expense of democratic norms, institutions and ideals”

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Daniel Ziblatt

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5 years

@esglaude @NBCNews I am in Berlin, Germany for the year where *all* elementary school children at all the public schools receive a free, hot lunch. No system is perfect but inclusiveness and universality when it comes to school kids are pretty good principles

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Daniel Ziblatt

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11 months

Some argue mainstream parties should mimic right wing extremists to dimish the appeal of the latters' message. This paper finds the opposite: New working paper by me, @ValentimVicente , @EliasDinas , and John Chua "How Mainstream Parties Erode Norms"

How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms

How does xenophobic rhetoric by mainstream politicians affect norms of tolerance? How does this compare to similar statements made by radical-right politicians? Drawing on experimental evidence, we...

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

2 years

Please read this. Pause. Think about it.

David Frum

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Hi it’s December 2021, and it’s now literally in writing that senior advisers to the ex president of the United States plotted to declare a bogus national emergency to cancel a national election and seize the government by military force

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Daniel Ziblatt

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8 months

Hannah Arendt: the problem in 1933 "was not what our enemies did, it's what our 'friends' did"

Hannah Arendt über das Jahr 1933: "Das Problem war, was unsere...

"Das pers��nliche Problem war doch nicht etwa, was unsere Feinde taten, sondern was unsere Freunde taten." Auschnitt aus der Sendung "Zur Person" mit Günter G...

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Daniel Ziblatt

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4 years

Angela Merkel just told the German public that 60-70% of Germans are likely to be infected by the Corona Virus. Wow.

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3 years

Only in Germany: covid tests and asparagus

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Daniel Ziblatt

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4 years

From How Democracies Die

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2 years

Devastating from today's @nytimes on the reckless opportunism of how segments of corporate America responded to Jan 6 assault on Congress

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

8 months

House Republicans should familiarize themselves a bit with the 18th century history of Poland that haunted America's founders, including Alexander Hamilton (from our book "Tyranny of the Minority")

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Daniel Ziblatt

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Those engaged in the (overly heated) fascism debate might learn a basic insight from the great Giovanni Sartori-- there is a tradeoff between extension of a term (class of things to which a word applies) and its intension (collection of properties) .

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Daniel Ziblatt

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5 years

In an op-ed in today's New York Times, I reflect with Steve Levitsky on Why Autocrats Love Emergencies

Opinion | Why Autocrats Love Emergencies (Published 2019)

Crises — real and imaginary — loosen normal constitutional constraints.

www.nytimes.com

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

9 months

Grateful for these words from historian Jill Lepore for our book, forthcoming 9/12

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Daniel Ziblatt

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The U.S. is the only remaining democracy in the world that uses an electoral college to select its president. We are a global outlier AND majorities of Americans would be happy without it.

John Gramlich

@johngramlich

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NEW: 65% of Americans, including nearly half of Republicans, favor doing away with the current Electoral College system so the candidate who wins the popular vote wins the presidency.

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Daniel Ziblatt

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1 year

In 1950s, sociologist Daniel Bell wrote "Americans have an extraordinary talent for compromise in politics & extremism in morality." Today, the reverse is the case. Republicans show a stunning talent for extremism in politics & more depressing skill for compromise in morality.

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

3 years

On the floor of the Spanish Parliament, 1981

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Daniel Ziblatt

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7 months

In Tyranny of the Minority, we elaborate the concept of --and dangers of--democratic semiloyalty For an illustration see video below.

Abby D. Phillip

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7 months

I asked Rep. Cory Mills, a veteran, if Trump crossed the line by suggesting former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley should be executed. He refused to say:

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Daniel Ziblatt

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4 years

In this Sunday's NYTimes, Steve Levitsky and me:

Opinion | End Minority Rule (Published 2020)

Either we become a truly multiracial democracy or we cease to be a democracy at all.

www.nytimes.com

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

6 years

Barack Obama recommends "How Democracies Die ."

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

4 years

Colleagues and friends: Two great postdoc positions available at the Berlin Social Science Center WZB for a new research unit "Transformations of Democracy" that I direct. Please encourage students/colleagues to apply:

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Daniel Ziblatt

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We have a new paper by @hannohilbig , @danbischof , and me in the American Political Science Review-- "Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany."

Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany | American Politi...

Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany

www.cambridge.org

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Daniel Ziblatt

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4 years

"The Meaning of Democracy" E.B. White (1943)

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Daniel Ziblatt

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5 years

Lots of wonderful "favorite books of 2018" lists circulating around. Being on this one is a particular thrill.

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Daniel Ziblatt

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1 year

Coming out this fall....

Tyranny of the Minority by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt: 9780593443071 | PenguinRandomHouse.com:...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the authors of How Democracies Die “[Levitsky and Ziblatt]...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

2 years

*Now* in Thai

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

3 years

Good morning. When your book gets mentioned on CNN.

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

8 months

This essay, drawing on our book, 'Tyranny of the Minority,' shows how the late political scientist Juan Linz's concept of semiloyalty clarifies the American predicament. In the book, we propose a way out.

Opinion | Democracy’s Assassins Always Have Accomplices

The conservative parties in Spain and Brazil could show the G.O.P. a thing or two about how to deal with would-be authoritarians.

www.nytimes.com

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

2 years

Just a reminder: civil rights and voting rights sometimes have to be secured on a strictly party line basis.

Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

3 years

Let' be clear: Many of America's major moments of democratization have been distinctly not bipartisan.

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America's urban-rural political divide in one picture. @nytimes

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Daniel Ziblatt

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This is effective democracy reform

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

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NEWS: Today @GovernorShapiro will announce that Pennsylvania is switching to automatic voter registration, potentially adding tens of thousands of voters to the rolls. "I see voter participation as key to strengthening democracy," Shapiro tells me.

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Daniel Ziblatt

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2 years

Watching this keeps it in fresh perspective the threat and chaos of January 6.

Norah O'Donnell 🇺🇸

@NorahODonnell

2 years

This is unseen footage of Congressional leadership, including Senators Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell, Speaker Pelosi and Rep. Steve Scalise, in a secure location as the riot was unfolding on Capitol Hill on January 6th.

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Daniel Ziblatt

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1 year

Congrats to @hannohilbig ! On his way to great position as assistant professor of political science at @ucdavis

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

5 years

Alas, time to repost : Why Autocrats Love Emergencies

Opinion | Why Autocrats Love Emergencies (Published 2019)

Crises — real and imaginary — loosen normal constitutional constraints.

www.nytimes.com

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

11 months

How should democracies deal with powerful political actors who don't accept the rules of the game? Here is one answer: Brazil Bars Bolsonaro from Office for Election-Fraud Claims

Brazil Bars Bolsonaro From Office for Election-Fraud Claims

Brazil’s electoral court banned former President Jair Bolsonaro from seeking office until 2030 for spreading false claims about the nation’s voting system.

www.nytimes.com

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Daniel Ziblatt

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2 years

One of the defining features of authoritarianism is the arbitrariness of power. Few things are as terrifying.

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

6 years

Arrived home finding a New Year's gift from my publisher @CrownPublishing . Fresh off the press. Available 1/16 & now for preorder. Thanks many friends for conversation that inspired us @rdanielkelemen @Yascha_Mounk @BrendanNyhan @EJDionne @ProfKMcNamara & so many others

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Daniel Ziblatt

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6 years

Truly honored by this recognition

Harvard University

@Harvard

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Professor @dziblatt has been chosen as this year’s recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for his book “Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy”

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America's Vichy Right

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

1 year

It's interesting how direct and open the pro-Putin right is in linking Russia's fortunes to those of the illiberal authoritarian white Christian secession movement in the United States.

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Daniel Ziblatt

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Today at Berlin main train station, truly devastating & moving scenes. Refugees arriving, nearly all mothers with their young children, all their belongings in huge suitcases, many w small pet dogs. Volunteers in orange/yellow vests helping them find their way

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Daniel Ziblatt

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In my seminar tonight w Theda Skocpol our topic was Richard Evans' account of how a lenient judge responded to Hitler's 1923 Beer Hall putsch and how the October 1932 supreme court decision dissolved social democratic Prussia. Judges can act w "grotesque ambivalence" (Bracher)

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Daniel Ziblatt

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3 years

Overhearing kids in a 5th grade zoom class expressing fear, concern, and incomprehension about what happened yesterday is heartbreaking

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As Chancellor Merkel leaves office, I cant help but think back to this memorable day 2 1/2 years ago

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An oldie but a goodie..

Steve Kerr

@SteveKerr

5 years

Add this to your summer reading list. Great book.

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Daniel Ziblatt

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Impeachable. Criminal.

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

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The Post obtained a recording of the conversation in which Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him to act and threatened him with vague criminal consequences if the secretary of state refused to pursue his false claims

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This is a devastating and revealing and interview. Read to end.

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The latest-- "In a last-minute addition, language was inserted in the bill making it easier to overturn an election, no longer requiring evidence that fraud actually altered an outcome of a race ."

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Daniel Ziblatt

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3 years

On CNN tonight

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In ch 8 of "tyranny of the minority," we weigh the appeal-- and risks of --militant democracy strategies like that offered by 14 amendment against two other broad strategies

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1 year

A lesson American business should note: Democratic backsliding is bad for capitalism

Tech Leaders in Israel Wonder if It’s Time to Leave (Published 2023)

Ahead of a judicial overhaul that could transform the country and frighten away investors, the executives of Start-Up Nation are mulling an exodus.

www.nytimes.com

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When institutions thwart democratic majorities: "Young voters had propelled the Move Forward Party — led by the Harvard-educated, 42-year-old Pita Limjaroenrat — to an unprecedented majority of the seats in Parliament after nine years of military rule"

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Daniel Ziblatt

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4 years

This may at first appear obscure to American audiences but make no mistake, it is a big deal: a FDP politician has been elected Ministerpräsident with votes of the AfD in the state of Thueringen.

Ramelow gescheitert - FDP-Mann Kemmerich zum Ministerpräsidenten gewählt

Thüringens neuer Ministerpräsident heißt Thomas Kemmerich. Der FDP-Mann war im dritten Wahlgang gegen den bisherigen Amtsinhaber Bodo Ramelow angetreten - und setzte sich mit den Stimmen der AfD und...

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I am impressed by the personal courage of the U.S. President. He gives a big public speech a few hundred miles from the Ukrainian border and only 250 miles from Lviv, as missiles are falling. Really remarkable. And little commented upon.

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3 years

“The central weakness of our political system right now is the Republican Party” via @voxdotcom

"The central weakness of our political system right now is the Republican Party"

A political scientist explains why the GOP has to reform if we want to fix American democracy.

www.vox.com

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1 year

Beware: When radicalizing conservatives are disappointed in election outcomes, they don't always self-correct & moderate. Instead they sometimes dangerously try "purify" their ranks, further elevating radicals. Lessons from Conservative parties and the birth of democracy (2017)

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Grateful for this review: " A work of remarkable clarity, Tyranny of the Minority is required reading for those concerned about the state of American democracy or anyone who wonders why and how our politics became so dysfunctional and partisan. "

Tyranny of the Minority: How American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky and...

Crown Review by Brian Tanguay The latest collaboration between Harvard University professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt is equal parts civics tutorial, history lesson, comparative analysis,...

calirb.com

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@dziblatt

2 years

We ( @aytugs , @YagciAlper & I) have forthcoming paper in "Comparative Political Studies" on how voters react to ambitious presidents as they try entrench their power. Case is Turkey. Lessons sadly far-reaching. This project began in 2016 grad seminar @aytugs & I took w/ @RyanDEnos

Aytuğ Şaşmaz

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Forthcoming at Comparative Political Studies: With @YagciAlper and @dziblatt , we explore how voters respond to executive aggrandizement, a common step in democratic backsliding.

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Since all the defenders of the filibuster value the 60 vote threshold so much, I wonder whether they would have voted against lowering it from 67 to 60 in 1975? #invented_tradition

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3 years

On the eve of Joe Biden's trip to Europe, @KThomasDC reports...

Ken Thomas

@KThomasDC

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If there’s a book that has helped shape Biden’s thinking as he travels to Europe, it’s “How Democracies Die,” by @dziblatt + @levitsky2 . Biden brought up the book last week during a WH mtg, w/ @andrewrestuccia

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With its failure even to offer an election program in 2020, our GOP joins ranks of two other political parties- Victor Orban's Fidesz and Netanyahu's Likud. The transformation is now complete.

Jonathan Chait

@jonathanchait

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It's officially a personality cult

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Any GOP leaders condemning what happened in Brazil today?

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Hi all: my research group in Berlin-- working on democracy & threats to democracy-- is looking for outstanding student assistants in Berlin. Please encourage anyone qualified you know to apply! Deadline has been extended to August 8. See announcement here:

Sebastian Hellmeier

@S_Hellmeier

3 years

💼Job alert! We are looking for 2 student assistants in our "Transformations of Democracy" unit at @WZB_Berlin led by @dziblatt . Deadline coming up fast (4 August). Apply if interested in democracy and/or data analysis! Please spread the word.

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This thrilling, beautifully- written book is coming out shortly. Recommend it with enthusiasm! @ProfMSinha

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@dan_gerstle

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It’s here @ProfMSinha

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We face a set of real emergencies, requiring extraordinary measures. The challenge is how democracies effectively deal with crises & maintain their democratic/liberal core . Watch for efforts that are not about dealing w/emergency but only about consolidating power.

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On eve of Jan 6, useful to analyze similar events in the past. In "Tyranny of the Minority" we describe Feb 6, 1934: rightwing militias attacked French parliament. 6 years later, French democracy was dead. Feb 6 "heroes" went on to serve in Vichy gov. This is what went down:

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We would have all been better off had the Virginia Plan won out back in 1787

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Summer in Berlin! @WZB_Berlin @WZB_Democracy

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A presidential candidate election process-- that eliminates Senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris before the first vote is even cast but keeps Andrew Yang and Tom Steyer in--is deeply broken.

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@ConStelz Disappointing

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New research published in @cps_journal with @aytugs and @YagciAlper on how voters responded to presidential assaults on checks and balances in Turkey

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Coming January 2018:

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How quaint this was (from way back in 2016)

Opinion | Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy? (Published 2016)

With norms weakening, past stability is no guarantee of our government’s future survival.

www.nytimes.com

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Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt

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Excited about this new paper by @JakeMGrumbach , @robmickey and me. We are motivated by a shared interest in the impact of America's incomplete democratization on contemporary American politics.

Jake M. Grumbach

@JakeMGrumbach

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Here's my new working paper w/ @robmickey & @dziblatt . tl;dr influxes of Black people during the Great Migration led Northern towns & cities to remove directly elected mayors & replace them with appointed city managers ungated: 1/n

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Great line up. Looking forward to chairing this important event !

Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies

@EuropeAtHarvard

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How can liberal democracies defend themselves against authoritarian threats from within? Join @till_holterhus @ChristophMllers @dziblatt & Ofrit Liviatan to discuss issues of 'militant democracy' from EU, Germany & US perspectives. @hela_law 🗓️4/4, 2pm 🔗

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Defending and advancing democracy at home is necessary for defending democracy anywhere

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3 years

It turns out this was overly optimistic

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6 years

"How Democracy Dies" makes it to NY TIMES best seller list.

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I enjoyed this long conversation/interview with @DBinswanger in the excellent Swiss @RepublikMagazin

«Es spielt keine Rolle mehr, wie verrückt es ist, was Sie vertreten – solange ein Milliardär Sie...

Die Trump-Präsidentschaft ist Geschichte, der Trumpismus bleibt mächtig. Wie bedroht ist die Zukunft der Demokratie weltweit? Ein Gespräch mit dem US-Politologen Daniel Ziblatt.

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Tonight on German television

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Daniel Ziblatt

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The power of taboos : Germany's democratic norms have until now been remarkably robust even if facing new, serious strains...my essay in today's @Tagesspiegel @annakatrein

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8 months

Follow me here

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4 years

I guess I need to post this from my book on conservative parties--Germany's Weimar era party (the DNVP)

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Daniel Ziblatt

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6 years

How DEMOCRACIES die. As of today four weeks on nytimes best sellers list.

Hardcover Nonfiction Books - Best Sellers - Books - Feb. 25, 2018 - The New York Times

The New York Times Best Sellers are up-to-date and authoritative lists of the most popular books in the United States, based on sales in the past week, including fiction, non-fiction, paperbacks,...

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