Larry Diamond In Search of Sustainable Democracy: Reflections on Three Decades of Research
DATE Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 12:00 pm LOCATION CISAC Central Conference Room, Second Floor, Encina Hall SPONSORED BY Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law ABSTRACT This seminar will reflect on Professor Larry Diamond's three decades of research seeking to identify the conditions for sustainable democracy. What have we learned about the conditions that support and undermine democracy? What is the relationship between democratic quality and democratic persistence? Is "democratic consolidation" a useful concept? Can consolidated democracies become "de-consolidated"--and if so, when and why? Do the current travails of the advanced democracies represent merely ongoing challenges of governance, or are we entering a period of more fundamental challenge to democratic norms and institutions? Finally, what does all of this imply for the policy agendas of democracy reform and promotion? BIO Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He also serves as the Peter E. Haas Faculty Director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford. For more than six years, he directed FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, and he continues to lead its programs on Liberation Technology, Arab Reform and Democracy, and Democracy in Taiwan. He is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy and also serves as Senior Consultant at the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy. His sixth and most recent book, In Search of Democracy (Routledge, 2016), explores the challenges confronting democracy and democracy promotion, gathering together three decades of his work on democratic development, particularly in Africa and Asia. He has also edited or co-edited more than 40 books on democratic development around the world. WHEN: Tuesday, October 20, 2015. 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm ADMISSION: This event is free and open to the public. RSVP required. CONTACT: 650-723-4610, christian.oll...@stanford.edu http://events.stanford.edu/events/551/55175/ -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
