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Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Daniel Ziblatt

How do democracies form and what makes them die? Daniel Ziblatt revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging historical narrative that traces the evolution of modern political democracy in Europe from its modest beginnings in 1830s Britain to Adolf Hitler's 1933 seizure of power in We...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Zack said the book explains how European parties shaped democratic development in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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The last one I think speaks to our conversation is Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy by Daniel Ziblatt, where he argues that European countries' political arcs to democracy were shaped b...

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Zack said the book explains how European parties shaped democratic development in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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The last one I think speaks to our conversation is Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy by Daniel Ziblatt, where he argues that European countries' political arcs to democracy were shaped by their conservative parties.

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Ezra explained that the book argues democracies survive when conservative parties keep antidemocratic forces at bay, and fail when they ally with them.

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There's a book I've been thinking about a lot lately. It's by Daniel Ziblatt, who's a Harvard political scientist, and it's called Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.

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