👇🎯 Full credit to Flake. The Ziblatt moment is like the Buffett moment: one realizes things about people when the tide goes out. And we’ve realized quite a lot about Mitt Romney & George W. Bush.
Thrilled to announce a new institute-wide initiative @ Harvard's Center for European Studies--"Democracy and its Critics", providing a frame for lectures, research, & public conversations. We start on Sept 19 w/ a lecture by Michael Ignatieff. More to come: ces.fas.harvard.edu/study-groups...
Historical Political Economy has new home @ Harvard's Center for European Studies! A new seminar series co-chaired by leaders in the field @vcharnysh @YuhuaWang5 @CChiopris & grad students Daniel Lowery, @JhengShao, M. Weigand). Great line-up this year. See: ces.fas.harvard.edu/study-groups...
The "serious conservative" organizations (as everyone could have predicted) are completely failing the Ziblatt moment, because they are (as everyone could have predicted) neither "serious" nor "conservative."
Is the so-called "firewall" (Brandmauer) between the AfD & other parties dead? Our new paper systematically analyzes minutes of all sessions (2,452) of local governments in eastern Germany from 2019 to 2024 to suggest "no" ...but it does show vulnerabilities. wzb.eu/en/node/83510
Die Brandmauer gegen die AfD steht, zeigt in ostdeutschen Landkreisen aber Risse. Das belegt eine aktuelle Studie des Wissenschaftszentrums Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) für alle ostdeutschen...
An honor to speak yesterday at Austria's parliament on the state of democracy in Europe and the United States. The parliament building is beautiful.
