Democracy in decline?
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Democracy in decline?
(A journal of democracy book)
Johns Hopkins University Press, c2015
- : hbk
Available at 12 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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.
Table of Contents
- 3 0. Introduction (by Plattner, Marc F.)
- 4 1. Why is Democracy Performing so Poorly? (by Fukuyama, Francis)
- 5 2. The Weight of Geopolitics (by Kagan, Robert)
- 6 3. Crisis and Transition, but Not Decline (by Schmitter, Philippe C.)
- 7 4. The Myth of Democratic Recession (by Levitsky, Steven)
- 8 5. Democracy Aid at 25: Time to Choose (by Carothers, Thomas)
- 9 6. Facing Up to the Democratic Recession (by Diamond, Larry)
- 2 0. Acknowledgements
- 1 0. Foreword (by Rice, Condoleezza)
- 11 0. About the Authors
- 12 0. Index
- 10 0. Notes
- 1 0. Foreword (by Rice, Condoleezza)
- 2 0. Acknowledgments
- 3 0. Introduction (by Plattner, Marc F.)
- 4 1. Why Is Democracy Performing So Poorly? (by Kagan, Robert)
- 5 2. The Weight of Geopolitics (by Fukuyama, Francis)
- 6 3. Crisis and Transition, but Not Decline
- 7 4. The Myth of the Democratic Recession (by Levitsky, Steven)
- 8 5. Democracy Aid at 25: Time to Choose (by Carothers, Thomas)
- 9 6. Facing Up to the Democratic Recession (by Diamond, Larry)
- 10 0. Notes
- 11 0. About the Authors
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