Daniel Ziblatt receives Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award
You might say his scholarship captures the entire life span of democracy. Having written books on both the birth and death of that system of government, Daniel Ziblatt, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, has been chosen as this year’s recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, a top accolade in political science, for his book “Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.” Ziblatt is the 14th Weatherhead Center for International Affairs faculty associate to receive this distinction since 1958, in the category of best book on government, politics, or international affairs by the American Political Science Association (APSA). The award arrives in tandem with the success of his trade book, “How Democracies Die,” co-authored with Government Professor Steven Levitsky, which rose to best-seller lists in the U.S. and Germany this year and can be read as an extension of, or sequel to, “Conservative Parties.” “Conservative Parties” also won the American Sociological Association’s Barrington Moore prize for best...