Jan 18, 2011

The Impact of the Economic Crisis

Why Democracies Survive

Larry Diamond

Larry Diamond is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and director of Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He is also founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy.

This article is published in the January 2011 issue of the Journal of Democracy. This essay is adapted from his chapter in the forthcoming volume New Ideas on Development after the Financial Crisis (2011), coedited by Nancy Birdsall and Francis Fukuyama.

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