Larry Diamond

About

Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. He chairs the Hoover Institution Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region and is the principal investigator of the Global Digital Policy Incubator, part of Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center. Diamond has directed FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, where he now leads its Program on Arab Reform and Democracy. His research focuses on democratic trends and conditions around the world, as well as policies and reforms to defend and advance democracy. He is the founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy and serves as a senior consultant at the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy. Diamond has authored several books, including "Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency," which analyzes the challenges confronting liberal democracy globally and offers an agenda for strengthening and defending democracy. His work also includes critical analyses of U.S. foreign policy and postwar Iraq, and he has edited numerous books on democratic development worldwide. Diamond teaches courses on democracy and American foreign policy at Stanford, including a MOOC on Comparative Democratic Development. He holds all his degrees from Stanford University, including a Ph.D. in Sociology, and…

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Law
• Chemistry
• Economics
• Political economy
• Medicine
• Positive economics
• Development economics
• Geography

Selected publications

• Democratic regression in comparative perspective: scope, methods, and causes

  Democratization · 2020 · 482 citations

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  Between 1974 and 2005, a majority of states became democratic for the first time in history. However, a global democratic recession began in 2006 and has persisted – and deepened – over the past 14 years. Not only have average levels of freedom (or democratic quality) been declining globally and in most parts of the world, but the pace of democratic breakdown accelerated and the number of democratic transitions declined, particularly in the past five years. Democratic regression is particularly…

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• Is Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on “America in One Room”

  American Political Science Review · 2021 · 217 citations

  This paper is positioned at the intersection of two literatures: partisan polarization and deliberative democracy. It analyzes results from a national field experiment in which more than 500 registered voters were brought together from around the country to deliberate in depth over a long weekend on five major issues facing the country. A pre–post control group was also asked the same questions. The deliberators showed large, depolarizing changes in their policy attitudes and large decreases in…

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• Breaking Out of the Democratic Slump

  Journal of democracy · 2020-01-01 · 93 citations

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  Since 2006, democracy in the world has been trending downward. A number of liberal democracies are becoming less liberal, and authoritarian regimes are developing more repressive tendencies. Democracies are dying at the hands of elected authoritarian populists who neuter or take over the institutions meant to constrain them. Changes in the international environment, as well as technological developments and growing inequality, have contributed to this democratic slump. Yet mass prodemocracy prot…

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• Is Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on America in One Room

  2020 · 66 citations

  This paper is positioned at the intersection of two literatures: partisan polarization and deliberative democracy. It analyzes results from a national field experiment in which more than 500 registered voters were brought together from around the country to deliberate in depth over a long weekend on five major issues facing the country. A pre-post control group was also asked the same questions. The deliberators showed large, de-polarizing changes in their policy attitudes and large decreases in…

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• Democracy's Arc: From Resurgent to Imperiled

  Journal of democracy · 2022-01-01 · 63 citations

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  The <i>Journal of Democracy</i> began publishing in 1990 in an era of hopeful, even exhilarating, expansion of democracy around the world. Democracy was on the march not only literally—on the ground and at the ballot box—but normatively and intellectually. Yet even at the peak of democracy's "third wave" in the mid-1990s, scholars were worrying about the shallow nature of many democratic regimes. These illiberal, poorly governed democracies were identified as prime candidates for erosion, and ma…

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Frequent coauthors

• Marc F. Plattner

  60 shared

• Steven Smith

  18 shared

• Juan J. Linz

  Yale University

  16 shared

• Yun‐han Chu

  Academia Sinica

  16 shared

• Seymour Martin Lipset

  15 shared

• Victoria A. Farrar‐Myers

  13 shared

• Cynthia Enloe

  13 shared

• Ann O'

  Texas A&M University

  13 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Political Science

  Stanford University

  1985

• M.A., Political Science

  University of California, Berkeley

  1980

• B.A., Political Science

  Yale University

  1977

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