Larry Diamond - In Search of Democracy

First published 2016
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Diamond, Larry.
In search of democracy / Larry Diamond.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-415-78127-5 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-415-78128-2 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-1-315-68517-5 (e-book) 1. Democracy. 2. Comparative
government. I. Title.
JC423.D655 2015
321.8dc23
2015003888

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WITH EMILY C. GREEN AND WILLIAM GALLERY

WITH JACK MOSBACHER

When one gathers together for publication work that spans a career, it is difficult to resist the temptation to thank everyone who has been helpful along the way. Many people are thanked specifically in the essays that follow. But I would like to begin here by expressing some deep and overarching gratitude. As I explain in the introduction, I owe a huge intellectual debtand a personal one larger than I can acknowledgeto Seymour Martin Lipset, who was one of my Ph.D. thesis advisors and whose writing and thinking did much to attract me to this field and shape my approach to it. It was Marty Lipset who introduced me three decades ago to the president of the new National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Carl Gershman. Since then, my friendship and interaction with Carl and the NED have been one of the key factors informing and inspiring my scholarship on and engagement with democratic development around the world.

Ten of the essays in this volume originally appeared in the journal published by NED, the Journal of Democracy, which I have had the privilege of coediting with Marc F. Plattner since it was launched in 1990. It is fitting that this book goes to press as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Journal. It not only has provided a periodic outlet for the kind of writing I have wanted to do on democracy, but it has also been for me a leading source of illumination and stimulation about evolving democratic ideas, theories, and empirical trends. I am deeply grateful to Marc for his intellectual and editorial leadership of the Journal, and for being a forthright but sympathetic and supportive critic. I also want to thank the editorial staff who I have worked with most closely: our long-time executive editor, Phil Costopoulos, who, along with Marc, has done so much over the years to make my work more lively and readable; our senior editor, Tracy Brown, a gifted and meticulous editor; our creative managing editor, Brent Kallmer; and other editorial staff who have helped me, including Zerxes Spencer, Nate Grubman, and Marta Kalabinski. Thanks also to NED stafftoo numerous to mentionwho have helped me understand the challenges and opportunities confronting democracy around the world, and who have done so much to support democratic change.