{"product_id":"democracy-in-decline-larry-diamond-9781421421216","title":"Democracy in Decline?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEight preeminent scholars debate the future of democracy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscussion 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in Decline?\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Larry Diamond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421421216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421421216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d","brand":"Larry Diamond","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43934798479615,"sku":"9781421421216","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_32ec9461-74e0-4f94-98e5-b2a33275d700.jpg?v=1681416111","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/democracy-in-decline-larry-diamond-9781421421216","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}