The list of books from current and former Democracy and Governance students and faculty make for terrific gifts for anyone interested in electoral reform, international development, post-communism, and politics more broadly. We hope you enjoy, and have a lovely holiday season!!
Governance
by Kevin Zapata Celestino Introduction In his work “The Republic,” Plato believed that the ideal state was founded […]
This year’s collection challenges long-held assumptions about democracy, human history, and American exceptionalism, as well as current understandings of populism and a more assertive Russia.
Zak Schneider Beginning in the post-enlightenment era, a new generation of politics brought together a uniquely democratic, egalitarian […]
By Jennifer Raymond Dresden, Ph.D., Associate Director Just when you thought book lists had wrapped up with the […]
By Georges A. Fauriol
The past decade has convincingly brought to a close a period of global democratic growth and consolidation underway since the late 1970s – Samuel Huntington’s “third wave.” We have instead now witnessed twelve years of democratic decline. This is fueled by the resurgence of expansionist authoritarianism armed with a vision strategically eager to compete with the norms and institutions of democracy; worse, there is also a measurable decline by established democracies in their commitment to democratic governing principles – in the aggregate, this is Larry Diamond’s “democratic recession.”
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