Larry Diamond
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- PhD Sociology Stanford University
- Masters Sociology Stanford University
- Bachelors Sociology Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Larry Jay Diamond is an American political sociologist and leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies. Diamond is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University's main center for research on international issues. At the Institute Diamond served as the director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law from 2009-2016. He was succeeded in that role by Francis Fukuyama and then Kathryn Stoner.
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Published Works
- Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (1999) (2199)
- Elections Without Democracy: Thinking About Hybrid Regimes (2002) (1248)
- The Self Restraining State: Power and Accountability in New Democracies (1999) (882)
- Rethinking Civil Society: Toward Democratic Consolidation (2008) (813)
- Facing Up to the Democratic Recession (2015) (611)
- Is the Third Wave Over? (1996) (581)
- Economic Development and Democracy Reconsidered (1992) (517)
- The Quality of Democracy: An Overview (2004) (422)
- Democracy in Developing Countries (1988) (400)
- The Global Resurgence of Democracy (1993) (396)
- Species of Political Parties (2003) (383)
- The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World (2008) (382)
- Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria: The Rise and fall of the Second Republic (1989) (373)
- Political parties and democracy (2001) (335)
- Assessing the quality of democracy (2005) (273)
- Democracy's Past and Future: Why Are There No Arab Democracies? (2010) (223)
- Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America (1989) (204)
- Three Paradoxes of Democracy (2008) (182)
- Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria: The Failure of the First Republic (1988) (151)
- Nationalism, ethnic conflict, and democracy (1995) (146)
- Consolidating the third wave democracies (1997) (133)
- Political culture and democracy in developing countries (1995) (131)
- Democracy in Decline (2015) (128)
- Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict (1987) (122)
- Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Themes and Perspectives (1999) (120)
- Class Formation in the Swollen African State (1987) (119)
- Transition without end : Nigerian politics and civil society under Babangida (1998) (106)
- The Democratic Rollback (2008) (105)
- Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (2005) (104)
- The global divergence of democracies (2001) (102)
- Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy (2012) (100)
- Civil-Military Relations and Democracy (1996) (97)
- Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy (2016) (96)
- Progress and Retreat in Africa: The Rule of Law versus the Big Man (2008) (93)
- Institutional Reform and Democratic Consolidation in Korea (1999) (93)
- Reexamining democracy : essays in honor of Seymour Martin Lipset (1993) (88)
- Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: An Introduction (2008) (83)
- Economic Reform and Democracy (1995) (82)
- Democratization in Africa (2001) (79)
- 9. China Democratic Values Supporting an Authoritarian System (2008) (76)
- Impact of the Economic Crisis (2020) (72)
- Electoral systems and democracy (2006) (71)
- Class, ethnicity, and democracy in Nigeria (1988) (69)
- Is Pakistan the (Reverse) Wave of the Future? (2000) (69)
- Building Democracy After Conflict: Lessons from Iraq (2005) (67)
- Israeli Democracy Under Stress (1993) (67)
- Promoting Democracy in Post-Conflict and Failed States Lessons and Challenges (2006) (66)
- Consolidating Democracy in South Korea (2000) (61)
- Democracy in East Asia (1999) (59)
- How people view democracy (2008) (58)
- Reconsidering the Transition Paradigm (2014) (57)
- The Democratic Revolution: Struggles for Freedom and Pluralism in the Developing World (1991) (54)
- Can the Whole World Become Democratic? Democracy, Development, and International Policies (2003) (53)
- Nigeria's struggle for democracy and good governance : a festschrift for Oyeleye Oyediran (2004) (53)
- Why Democracies Survive (2011) (49)
- Democratic regression in comparative perspective: scope, methods, and causes (2020) (49)
- Civil Society and the Development of Democracy (1997) (48)
- Beyond Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism: Strategies for Democratization (1989) (46)
- Nigeria in Search of Democracy (1984) (46)
- Consolidating Democracy in the Americas (1997) (44)
- ANOTHER INSTITUTIONALIZATION: LATIN AMERICA AND ELSEWHERE (2000) (44)
- In Search of Democracy (2015) (43)
- The state of India's democracy (2007) (41)
- INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN, ETHNIC CONFLICT-MANAGEMENT AND DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA (1999) (39)
- Class, Ethnicity, and the Democratic State: Nigeria, 1950–1966 (1983) (38)
- ISSUES IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN OF A THIRD NIGERIAN REPUBLIC (1987) (37)
- Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy (2014) (36)
- Political change in China : comparisons with Taiwan (2008) (36)
- Political Corruption: Nigeria's Perennial Struggle (2008) (35)
- Cleavage, Conflict, and Anxiety in the Second Nigerian Republic (1982) (35)
- Building and Sustaining Democratic Government in Developing Countries: Some Tentative Findings (1987) (34)
- Elections and Democracy in Greater China (2001) (34)
- Transition without End: Nigerian Politics and Civil Society under Babangida (1998) (33)
- China and East Asian Democracy: The Coming Wave (2012) (31)
- Capitalism, socialism, and democracy revisited (1993) (31)
- 7. Seymour Martin Lipset. 1959. “Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy.” American Political Science Review 53 (March): 69–105 Cited 455 times. (2006) (29)
- Democratization in Africa : progress and retreat (2010) (29)
- 1. Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on Democratic Legitimacy in East Asia (2008) (29)
- Is the Third Wave of Democratization Over? An Empirical Assessment (1997) (29)
- The global imperative: Building a democratic world order (1994) (28)
- The End of the Third Wave and the Global Future of Democracy. IHS Political Science Series No. 45, July 1997 (1997) (27)
- World religions and democracy (2005) (26)
- Effects of Investment Dependence on Economic GrowthThe Role of Internal Structural Characteristics and Periods in the World Economy (1979) (26)
- Democracy after communism (2003) (25)
- The Road to Digital Unfreedom: The Threat of Postmodern Totalitarianism (2019) (24)
- The Global State of Democracy (2000) (23)
- Prospects for democratic development in Africa (1997) (23)
- Poverty, inequality, and democracy (2012) (22)
- Nigeria's perennial struggle against corruption: prospects for the Third Republic (1992) (20)
- New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan (2014) (19)
- Will China Democratize (2013) (19)
- The Opening in Burma: The Need for a Political Pact (2012) (19)
- Nigeria's Search for a New Political Order (1991) (19)
- A transatlantic strategy to promote democratic development in the broader Middle East (2005) (18)
- Breaking Out of the Democratic Slump (2020) (18)
- The Rule of Law as Transition to Democracy in China (2003) (18)
- A Win-Win U.S. Strategy for Dealing with Iran (2006) (17)
- Taiwan's 1998 Elections: Implications for Democratic Consolidation (1999) (17)
- Developing democracy in Africa: African and international imperatives (2000) (17)
- Democracy's victory and crisis: Promoting democracy in the 1990s: actors, instruments, and issues (1997) (17)
- Democracy's Third Wave Today (2011) (16)
- Seymour Martin Lipset and the Study of Democracy (1992) (16)
- 2. Indonesia’s Place in Gl obal Democracy (2010) (15)
- Moving Up Out of Poverty: What Does Democracy Have to Do With It? (2003) (15)
- Is Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on America in One Room (2020) (15)
- Advancing Democratic Governance: A Global Perspective on the Status of Democracy and Directions for International Assistance (2002) (14)
- Asia's Challenged Democracies (2009) (14)
- 7. Japanese Attitudes and Values Toward Democracy (2008) (13)
- Fostering institutions to contain corruption (1999) (13)
- Political Culture and Democratic Consolidation (1998) (11)
- Cultivating Democratic Citizenship: Education for a New Century of Democracy in the Americas (1997) (11)
- Democratization and authoritarianism in the Arab world (2014) (11)
- Why Wait for Democracy (2013) (11)
- The Impact of the Economic Crisis: Why Democracies Survive (2011) (11)
- Debates on democratization (2010) (10)
- Evolution and style in Camunian rock art : an inquiry into the formation of European civilization (1976) (10)
- Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (2009) (10)
- Quality of Democracy (2004) (10)
- Foreign Aid in the National Interest : The Importance of Democracy and Governance (2015) (10)
- The Meanings of Democracy: Introduction (2010) (9)
- Latin America's struggle for democracy (2008) (9)
- IS THE THIRD WAVE OF DEMOCRATIZATION OVER? The Imperative of Consolidation (1997) (9)
- Is a ‘rainbow coalition’ a good way to govern? (2009) (9)
- The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict (2008) (9)
- The Illusion of Liberal Autocracy (2003) (8)
- Deliberative polling for multistakeholder internet governance: considered judgments on access for the next billion (2017) (8)
- El resurgimiento global de la democracia (1997) (8)
- Democracy in Developing Countries: Volume 3, Asia. (1989) (8)
- Democracy in East Asia: A New Century (2013) (8)
- 3. Mass Public Perceptions of Democratization in the Philippines Consolidation in Progress (2008) (7)
- Demography and the Future of Democracy (2020) (7)
- REVIEW ESSAY: FICTION AS POLITICAL THOUGHT (1989) (7)
- Democracy in Asia (1989) (7)
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and acute cardiovascular life support--a protocol review of the updated guidelines. (2007) (7)
- FROM Taiwan ’ s Democracy Challenged : The Chen Shui-bian Years (2016) (6)
- Iraq and Democracy: The Lessons Learned (2006) (6)
- 4. How Citizens View Taiwan’s New Democracy (2008) (6)
- The State and Violence (2010) (6)
- The Origins of Crisis (1988) (5)
- Sizing Up Taiwan's Political Earthquake 1 (2001) (5)
- Why the "Journal of Democracy" (2008) (5)
- Pluralism by Default and the Sources of Political Liberalization in Weak States (2003) (5)
- South Asia Faces the Future (2002) (4)
- Why China’s democratic transition will differ from Taiwan’s 1 (2015) (4)
- When Does Populism Become a Threat to Democracy (2017) (4)
- Ten Years After the Soviet Breakup (2001) (4)
- Nigeria’s Third Quest for Democracy (1991) (4)
- Francophone Africa in Flux (2001) (3)
- High Anxiety in the Andes (2001) (3)
- The State of Democratization at the Beginning of the 21 st Century by Larry Diamond (2005) (3)
- Democratization and Development (2010) (3)
- Democracy in Developing Countries, Vol. II: Africa (1989) (3)
- Afghanistan & Iraq: Taking Stock (2010) (2)
- Empowering the poor : What does democracy have to do with it? 1 (2005) (2)
- The Next Democratic Century (2014) (2)
- Managing the Military (2008) (2)
- Anatomy of an Electoral Earthquake: How the KMT Lost and the DPP Won the 2000 Presidential Election (2017) (2)
- Nigeria Between Dictatorship and Democracy (1987) (2)
- The Legacies of 1989 (2014) (2)
- 10. Conclusion Values, Regime Performance, and Democratic Consolidation (2008) (2)
- International Forum for Democratic Studies Established by the National Endowment for Democracy (1995) (1)
- Politics and culture in contemporary Iran : challenging the status quo (2015) (1)
- Regime Type and Effective Government: Is There (Still) a ‘Democracy Advantage’? (2021) (1)
- CDDRL WORKING PAPERS The Quality of Democracy Larry Diamond Leonardo Morlino (2004) (1)
- Foreword to "Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria" (2001) (1)
- Latin Lessons (2010) (1)
- Ripe for diffusion: international and domestic factors in the global trend towards democracy. Pt.1 (1991) (1)
- Integrative and divisive roles of political parties : Party attachment , Ideology and satisfaction with democracy in the Netherlands (2017) (1)
- Democracy’s Future (2019) (1)
- The Flow and Ebb of Democracy’s Third Wave (2013) (1)
- China and East Asian Democracy (2012) (1)
- The Morass in Moscow (1993) (0)
- The 1964 Federal Election Crisis (1988) (0)
- Appendix 3. Coding Scheme for Open-Ended Question on Understanding of Democracy (2008) (0)
- The crisis of liberal democracy (2017) (0)
- Nigeria: A Tarnished Victory For the NPN (National Party of Nigeria)? (1983) (0)
- Democracy in Iraq (2006) (0)
- 7. Seymour Martin Lipset. 1959. American Political Science Review 53 (March): 69 105 Cited 455 times (2006) (0)
- Governance and the Political Economy of Prebendalism (2013) (0)
- Democracy After Trump (2016) (0)
- New Day New Way: U.S. Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century (2008) (0)
- Appendix 1. Sampling and Fieldwork Methods (2008) (0)
- Assessing the Third Wave Democracies@@@Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe@@@Economic Reform and Democracy@@@Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Themes and Perspectives@@@Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Region (1998) (0)
- Could an Independent Candidate Become President? - Conversation with Larry Diamond and Vin Weber (2016) (0)
- Crisis and Conflict in the Western Region, 1962–63 (1988) (0)
- An investigation into the significance of accountancy to agro and agricultural industry SMEs: survey of Bindura urban and peri-urban agro and agricultural industry SMEs. [2012 – 2013] (2013) (0)
- Transcription of Larry Diamond's Keynote Address at the "Learning Democracy" conference. (2005) (0)
- The Western Election Crisis and the National Crisis of Confidence, 1965 (1988) (0)
- The Western Allies 50 Years Later (1995) (0)
- The Census Crisis: 1963–64 (1988) (0)
- Deterring a Chinese military attack on Taiwan (2023) (0)
- The coming wave of East Asian democracy 1 (2015) (0)
- Muslim Hausa Women in Nigeria: tradition and change by Barbara J. Callaway Syracuse University Press, 1987. Pp. xx+242. $29.95. (1987) (0)
- Conclusion: Why the First Republic Failed (1988) (0)
- Escaping the Development Impasse (2009) (0)
- AN OVERVIEW (2004) (0)
- Books Received (1954) (0)
- Introduction (2000) (0)
- include democratization, civil conflict, conflict resolution, human rights, the war on terror, and Africa's role in the global economy. (2011) (0)
- Introduction. Korea and Taiwan (2020) (0)
- Prebendalism and Identity Politics (2013) (0)
- MFAN Open Letter to President-elect Obama (2008) (0)
- Appendix 2. Research Protocol (2008) (0)
- Conspiracy of Optimism: Nigeria at Independence (1988) (0)
- Promoting democracy : Enduring tensions and new opportunities 1 (2015) (0)
- The 1964 General Strike (1988) (0)
- Appendix 4. Question Wording (2008) (0)
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