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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · Sep 4

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.

WZB Berlin @wzb.bsky.social · Sep 4

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.
www.wzb.eu/en/press-rel...
@vdeminstitute.bsky.social @dziblatt.bsky.social @blfirestone.bsky.social

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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · Aug 28

New article by @dziblatt.bsky.social in @foreignaffairs.com
www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...

Warnings From Weimar

Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · Aug 12

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.

British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

BJPolS abstract discussing the dynamics of mainstream and radical political rhetoric regarding anti-immigrant policies, highlighting differences in societal responses and enforcement norms based on the source of the rhetoric.

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Felix @wortmanncallejon.de · Aug 11

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!

Fabio Ellger @fabioellger.bsky.social · Aug 7

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..

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Fabio Ellger @fabioellger.bsky.social · Aug 7

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..

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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · Jul 20

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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Vanessa Boese-Schlosser @boesevanessa.bsky.social · May 23

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!🙃

V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social · May 21

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

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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · May 16

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...

Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?

www.nytimes.com

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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · May 16

Great new paper by our own @fabioellger.bsky.social and co authors @jeyalizade.bsky.social , @mgruenewald.bsky.social and @ttichelbaecker.bsky.social

Thomas Tichelbaecker @ttichelbaecker.bsky.social · May 8

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

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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · Apr 28

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

WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · Apr 24

/2..a paper launch event where our postdoc @blfirestone.bsky.social along with her collaborators will present the new study on the impact of a digital memory project recently published in @psychscience.bsky.social. Berlin, May 5th, 6pm: www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...

Digitale Erinnerung an die NS-Verfolgung: Erkenntnisse aus dem Crowd-Sourcing-Projekt #everynam

<p>Wie kann die Erinnerung an die NS-Verfolgung wach gehalten werden? Wie können gerade junge Menschen dazu motiviert werden, sich durch ein Befassen mit der Geschichte für eine offene Gesellschaft ei...

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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · Apr 24

/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

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...

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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · Apr 24

A call for papers!!!

Berenike Firestone @blfirestone.bsky.social · Apr 23

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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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · Mar 20

3/ In short, at least by 2024, the firewall hadn't collapsed "from below."

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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · Mar 20

2/ in the first comprehensive analysis of all Council meetings of Germany's 401 local districts between 2019 and 2014 (over 11,000 meetings), they find the differences in cooperation between east and west were lower than often portrayed; and overall lowe than popular portrayal suggests.

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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · Mar 20

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...

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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · Mar 18

Pleased to announce our semester speaker series!

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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · Jan 2

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

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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · Dec 21

www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

Daniel Ziblatt: "Trump wird so weit gehen wie möglich"

Harvard-Professor Daniel Ziblatt erforscht, wie Demokratien sterben. Donald Trump werde viel Schaden anrichten, sagt er. So schlimm wie in Ungarn werde es aber nicht.

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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · May 13

📻 Radio interview mit @dziblatt.bsky.social im Deutschlandfunk

▶️ www.deutschlandfunk.de/wenn-minderh...

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.

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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · May 13

📰 Interview mit @dziblatt.bsky.social und Steven Levitsky in @spiegelmagazin.bsky.social [paywall]
▶️ 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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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · May 13

"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...

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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · May 3

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/...

"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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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · May 3

🗓️ 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...

Demokratie unter Druck: Was sie schwächt, was sie stärkt

Wahlen in Deutschland und Amerika: Daniel Ziblatt und Annika Brockschmidt im Gespräch

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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · May 3

🚩 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...

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