Democracy in Decline? Hardcover - 2015
by Larry Diamond; Marc F. Plattner (Editor); Foreword by Condoleezza Rice
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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.
The authors share the understanding that some more recent events--the rise of the Islamic state in the Middle East, China's muscleflexing in the South China Sea, and Russia's annexation of Crimea--are elements in a bigger picture that suggests the rules-based international order built by democratic powers should no longer be taken for granted.--Choice
Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where he directs the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Marc F. Plattner is the vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. Plattner and Diamond are founding coeditors of the Journal of Democracy and co-chairs of the Research Council of the International Forum for Democratic Studies.
-- "Foreign Affairs"Details
- Title Democracy in Decline?
- Author Larry Diamond; Marc F. Plattner (Editor); Foreword by Condoleezza Rice
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
- Date 2015-10-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9781421418186 / 1421418185
- Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.83 x 5.64 x 0.38 in (22.43 x 14.33 x 0.97 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Democratization, Democracy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015006239
- Dewey Decimal Code 321.8
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