Democracy in Decline

摘要: For almost a decade, Freedom House's annual survey has highlighted decline in democracy most regions of the globe. While some analysts draw upon this evidence to argue that world entered "democratic recession," others dispute interpretation, emphasizing instead democracy's success maintaining huge gains it made during last quarter twentieth century. Discussion question moved beyond disputes about how many countries should be classified as democratic embrace host wider concerns health democracy: poor economic and political performance advanced democracies, new self-confidence assertiveness number leading authoritarian countries, geopolitical weakening democracies relative these resurgent authoritarians. In Democracy Decline?, eight world's public intellectuals scholars democracy-Francis Fukuyama, Robert Kagan, Philippe C Schmitter, Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, Thomas Carothers, editors Larry Diamond Marc F Plattner-explore offer competing viewpoints state today. This short collection essays is essential reading for anyone wanting understand latest thinking on one critical questions our era.