Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy is a 2017 non-fiction book by Daniel Ziblatt, published by Cambridge University Press, discussing the growth of democratic countries in 19th and 20th century Europe.

[9] Mark Koyama, in The Journal of Economic History, stated that "The British case-study foregrounds the main components of Ziblatt’s argument.

[6] In addition to the United Kingdom and Germany the book, in a third section,[7] has content about post 1879-France,[4] Italy,[7] Latin America, Sweden, and Spain,[3] as well as other parts of Scandinavia.

"[4] Gunitsky argued that the book does not adequately explore "external forces" and international relations, but that "These are perhaps unfair demands to make of" the work.

[4] Citing changes in the United States Republican Party, Gunitsky added "Although Donald Trump does not appear anywhere in the book, his specter looms over the argument.

"[5] According to Koyama, the work is "a powerful and comprehensive account of the divergent political trajectories of Britain and Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.