Politics
Daniel Ziblatt
How Democracies Die
A
world-leading political scientist at the forefront of contemporary democracy
research
Lesson Plan
- Lesson Length : 7 Lessons ㆍ 2 hours 01 miutes
- Language : 한국어, English
An analysis of democratic collapse through the internal workings of democratic systems
In an era when modern democracy feels increasingly precarious, Daniel Ziblatt locates the threat not outside democratic systems but within them. He argues that democracy no longer collapses through coups but is dismantled gradually by leaders who arrive through legitimate elections.
The lectures begin by defining democracy and its conditions, explaining how competition serves as democracy's essential check on power. They then analyze the collapse of the Weimar Republic, identify the warning signs by which authoritarian leaders can be recognized today, and examine the step-by-step strategies authoritarians use to seize power through legal means. The series closes by proposing strategies for resisting democratic backsliding and the conditions required for recovery. Through this seven-part series, viewers are invited not only to understand how democracies die but to reconsider what is worth protecting — and why.Full Bio
Daniel Ziblatt
- American political scientist
- Professor of Government, Harvard University
- Director, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany
- Woodrow Wilson Award, Barrington Moore Award (2018)Daniel
Ziblatt is an American political scientist, Professor of Government at Harvard
University, and Director of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center in Germany.
Having spent decades studying the structural mechanisms by which democracies
collapse, he explains the crisis of democracy not through external threats but
through the internal logic of democratic systems themselves — an approach that
has established him as one of the most influential political scientists of our
time. His major works include Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy
(2017) and, co-authored with Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die (2018) and
Tyranny of the Minority (2023), offering essential insights into the worldwide
crisis of democracy.
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