BOOKS
2018. How Democracies Die (with Steven Levitsky, Crown Books)
*Translated into 22 Languages
*New York Times Best seller
*Spiegel Magazine Best seller (in German)
*Foreign Affairs Book of the Year
*Washington Post Book of the Year
*New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
*2019 Goldsmith Prize (Harvard Kenney School)
*North German Radio (German Public Radio) Best Non Fiction Book Prize
2017. Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (Cambridge University Press) Media: [CNN][The Atlantic]
*2018 Woodrow Wilson Award, Best book published in the United States on government, politics or international affairs, American Political Science Association
*2018 Barrington Moore Prize, American Sociological Association, Comparative and Historical Sociology Section
*2018 Comparative Democratization Best Book Prize, Comparative Democratization Section, American Political Science Association,
*2018 European Politics and Society Best Book Prize, European Politics and Society Section, American Political Science Association
2006. Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism (Princeton: Princeton University Press)
*2007 Best Book Prize, European Politics and Society Section, American Political Science Association
RECENT BOOK CHAPTERS
2023. "Conclusion: From the Micro to the Macro" in Jeffrey S. Kopstein, Jelena Subotic, and Susan Welch (eds.) Politics, Violence, Memory: The New Social Science of the Holocaust (Ithaca: Cornell University Press)
2022. "The Causes of Populism and the Problem of Cultural Majority Rights" in Liav Orgad and Ruud Koopmans (eds.) Majorities, Minorities, and the Future of Nationhood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
2022. "Der Wirksame Staat: Was uns die Corona Pandemie ueber die Widerstandsfaehigkeit von Demokratien sagt" in Frank Walter Steinmeier (ed.) Zur Zukunft der Demokratie (Munich: Siedler)
2022. "Die Schwäche Konservativer Parteien und der Untergang der Weimarer Demokratie" in Thomas Weber (ed.) Als die Demokratie starb: Die Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten – Geschichte und Gegenwart (Herder)