WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026New work out of @wzb.bsky.social and @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social by @hannohilbig.bsky.social and @dziblatt.bsky.social 031
Reposted by WZB DemocracyMinda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies @europeatharvard.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Congratulations to CES Director @dziblatt.bsky.social on receiving the inaugural Transatlantic Bridge Professorship from the @volkswagenstiftung.de! He will explore the role of civil society leaders in protecting #democracy. @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/news/news... 0124
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Daniel Ziblatt @ Uni Würzburg on how to respond to democratic threats 100
Reposted by WZB DemocracyZentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · 22/10/2025US-Senator Merkley liest derzeit bereits 20 Stunden lang „Wie Demokratien sterben“ im Senat – von @dziblatt.bsky.social. Am 8.11. bei uns im GORKI Theater! 022041
Reposted by WZB DemocracyWZB Berlin @wzb.bsky.social · 08/10/2025We are excited that our first annual interdisciplinary WZB conference "The Future of #Democracy?" starts this evening with a public dialogue on "Democracy at Stake", featuring U.S. Democrat @betoorourke.bsky.social and @annaluehrmann.bsky.social at Akademie der Künste, Berlin. 0135
Reposted by WZB DemocracyWZB Berlin @wzb.bsky.social · 09/10/2025What a moving evening at the Academy of Arts: @betoorourke.bsky.social, U.S. Democrat from Texas, and @annaluehrmann.bsky.social (Die Grünen) offered convincing analyses about the state of democracy on both sides of the Atlantic, providing critical yet hopeful perspectives. 📸Bernhard Ludewig 1205
Reposted by WZB DemocracyDaniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 04/09/2025So 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. 1312
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 28/08/2025New article by @dziblatt.bsky.social in @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...foreignaffairs.comWarnings From WeimarWhy bargaining with authoritarians fails. 052
Reposted by WZB DemocracyDaniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Vicente 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. 19942
Reposted by WZB DemocracyFelix @wortmanncallejon.de · 11/08/2025Events 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! 0142
Reposted by WZB DemocracyFabio Ellger @fabioellger.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Excited 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.. 13714
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 20/07/2025The WZB Transformations of Democracy unit hosted a great workshop on how ideas of Democracy evolve over time . A great group & lots of scholarly progress. 1134
Reposted by WZB DemocracyVanessa Boese-Schlosser @boesevanessa.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Need 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!🙃 0228
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025New 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...nytimes.comOpinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy? 11710
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Great new paper by our own @fabioellger.bsky.social and co authors @jeyalizade.bsky.social , @mgruenewald.bsky.social and @ttichelbaecker.bsky.social 195
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Our 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 000
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025/1 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 eventjournals.sagepub.comParticipating in a Digital-History Project Mobilizes People for Symbolic Justice and Better Intergroup Relations Today - Ruth Ditlmann, Berenike Firestone, Oguzhan Turkoglu, 2025Awareness of past atrocities is widely seen as critical for restoring justice and building resilient democracies. Going beyond information provision, an increas... 143
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 20/03/20251/ 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... 1278
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Pleased to announce our semester speaker series! 0176
Reposted by WZB DemocracyDaniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 02/01/2025In 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 40672183
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 21/12/2024www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...zeit.deDaniel 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. 010
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 13/05/2024📻 Radio interview mit @dziblatt.bsky.social im Deutschlandfunk ▶️ www.deutschlandfunk.de/wenn-minderh...deutschlandfunk.deBedrohte Demokratie: Wenn Minderheiten den Diskurs bestimmenDer Politologe Daniel Ziblatt beschreibt in "Die Tyrannei der Minderheit", wie wenige über viele herrschen, zeigt aber auch Lösungen auf. 030
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 13/05/2024📰 Interview mit @dziblatt.bsky.social und Steven Levitsky in @spiegelmagazin.bsky.social [paywall] ▶️ www.spiegel.de/ausland/demo...spiegel.de(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 ... 020
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 13/05/2024"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... 010
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 03/05/2024Ist 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/...daserste.de"Die Tyrannei der Minderheit" – Ist Amerikas Demokratie noch zu retten? | ttt – titel, thesen, temperamenteDonald 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... 021
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 03/05/2024🗓️ 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...wzb.euDemokratie unter Druck: Was sie schwächt, was sie stärktWahlen in Deutschland und Amerika: Daniel Ziblatt und Annika Brockschmidt im Gespräch 0104
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 03/05/2024🚩 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... 020
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 18/12/2023New WZB Democracy working paper by @boesevanessa.bsky.social on the long-term trust effects of living under autocratic rule on individual citizens. - with @mbayerlein.bsky.social, Katrin Kamin and Scott Gates & Mansoob Murshed - link to paper: bibliothek.wzb.eu/pdf/2023/v23... poliskybibliothek.wzb.eu 152
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 13/12/2023❗Job openings in our unit ❗ We currently have two job openings: Postdoctoral Research Fellow Deadline for applications: 14.01.2024 www.wzb.eu/de/node/80075 Student Assistant Deadline for applications: 02.01.2024 www.wzb.eu/de/node/80074 Please share widely.wzb.euPostdoctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID 228)For its research department Transformations of Democracy (TD) (Director: Professor Daniel Ziblatt) the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID... 01717
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 01/11/2023📌 Publication alert: New article by @fabioellger.bsky.social "The Mobilizing Effect of Party System Polarization. Evidence From Europe" published in @cpsjournal.bsky.socialjournals.sagepub.comThe Mobilizing Effect of Party System Polarization. Evidence From Europe - Fabio Ellger, 2023Does party system polarization mobilize voters? Polarization is increasingly shaping democratic competition across Europe. While often perceived to be negative,... 052
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 01/11/2023Authoritarianism & disinformation go hand in hand. In a new @ecpr.bsky.social The Loop article, @klatt.bsky.social and @boesevanessa.bsky.social highlight the dangerous relationship.theloop.ecpr.eu♟️ Authoritarianism and disinformation: the dangerous linkWhere there is authoritarianism, there is disinformation. Nikolina Klatt and Vanessa Boese-Schlosser examine the use of disinformation in authoritarian 033
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 01/11/2023📰 Interview with @dziblatt.bsky.social in Die Zeit: www.zeit.de/2023/45/usa-... [in German & paywall]zeit.deMinderheiten in den USA: "Das wäre tödlich für die amerikanische Demokratie"Der US-Politikwissenschaftler Daniel Ziblatt beschreibt, wie das politische System der USA demokratische Minderheiten bevorzugt. Was verheerende Folgen habe. 010
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 01/11/2023📌 New publication by @dziblatt.bsky.social with @hannohilbig.bsky.social and @danbischof.bsky.social in the American Political Science Review: "Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany" bit.ly/3S9qBfUbit.lyWealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany | American Political...Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany 050