Daniel Ziblatt | Christian Democrats | US Republicans | How Democracies Die | Thuringia | Viktor Orbán | Identifying authoritarians | Diversity and democracy | Gatekeepers | Macron's balancing act | Climate and Covid-19 | Trumpism's future
2 February 2021
Political scientist Daniel Ziblatt is best known for co-authoring the 2018 bestseller How Democracies Die. The book is an indictment of US Republicans and their failure to resist Donald Trump. Daniel's work also examines how conservative parties have largely determined whether democracy thrived, as in Britain, or died, as in Weimar Germany. In this episode he discusses dilemmas facing Europe's modern-day conservative parties, including the German Christian Democratic Union and the European People's Party.