Democracy in Decline? Contributor(s): Diamond, Larry (Editor), Plattner, Marc F. (Editor), Rice, Condoleezza (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1421421216 ISBN-13: 9781421421216 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Comparative Politics - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy |
Dewey: 321.8 |
Series: Journal of Democracy Book |
Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.39 lbs) 144 pages |
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Publisher Description: For almost a decade, Freedom House's annual survey has highlighted a decline in democracy in most regions of the globe. While some analysts draw upon this evidence to argue that the world has entered a "democratic recession," others dispute that interpretation, emphasizing instead democracy's success in maintaining the huge gains it made during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Discussion of this question has moved beyond disputes about how many countries should be classified as democratic to embrace a host of wider concerns about the health of democracy: the poor economic and political performance of advanced democracies, the new self-confidence and assertiveness of a number of leading authoritarian countries, and a geopolitical weakening of democracies relative to these resurgent authoritarians. In Democracy in Decline?, eight of the world's leading public intellectuals and scholars of democracy--Francis Fukuyama, Robert Kagan, Philippe C. Schmitter, Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, Thomas Carothers, and editors Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner--explore these concerns and offer competing viewpoints about the state of democracy today. This short collection of essays is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the latest thinking on one of the most critical questions of our era. |
Contributor Bio(s): Diamond, Larry: - Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, where he also directs the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Marc F. Plattner is vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy, where he directs the International Forum for Democratic Studies. They serve as coeditors of the Journal of Democracy. |