| #1108024 in Books | Johns Hopkins University Press | 1999-04-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.80 x6.00l,1.14 | File Name: 080186156X | 384 pages |
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Good for policymakers|By Arnold|Larry Diamond is one of those few political scientists who finds an audience amongst policymakers but also knows his political science. This book is a bit of each. I'd say that most political scientists will find it a bit too lax in its reasoning and tests. Many will become nauseated upon seeing his emphasis on legitimacy. The book doesn't advan|||"[A] systematic account of the political realities that make democracy promotion so challenging. Diamond... marshals an impressive array of cross-cultural social-science evidence." (Charles Lane Weekly Standard)
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In this book noted political sociologist Larry Diamond sets forth a distinctive theoretical perspective on democratic evolution and consolidation in the late twentieth century. Rejecting theories that posit preconditions for democracy―and thus dismiss its prospects in poor countries―Diamond argues instead for a "developmental" theory of democracy. This, he explains, is one which views democracy everywhere as a work in progress that emerges piecemeal, at different...
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