Liberty and the Crisis of Democracy: The Rise, Stall, and Possible Fall of Liberal Democracy
ABSTRACT
Colloquium participants explored whether the "global democratic boom" is now in danger of demise, in terms both of a crisis of democracy within the West and of rising populism and authoritarian resurgence in the international system.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Diamond, Larry and Leonardo Morlino, eds. Assessing the Quality of Democracy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
The Economist. “What’s gone wrong with democracy.” The Economist (March 2014): 1-16.
Ahmari, Sohrab. “Illiberalism: The Worldwide Crisis.” Commentary Magazine (June 2016): 1-9.
Diamond, Larry, Marc Plattner, and Christopher Walker, “Introduction” In Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy, edited by Larry Diamond, Marc Plattner, and Christopher Walker, 1-15. Baltimore: John Hopkins University, 2016.
Diskin, Abraham, Hanna Diskin, and Reuven Y. Hazan. “Why Democracies Collapse: The Reasons for Democratic Failure and Success.” International Political Science Review 26, no. 3 (July 2005): 291-309.
Fukuyama, Francis. Political Order and Political Decay. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Fukuyama, Francis. “Why Is Democracy Performing So Poorly?” Journal of Democracy 26, no. 1 (January 2015): 11-20.
Gidron, Noam and Bart Bonikowski. “Varieties of Populism: Literature Review and Research Agenda.” Working Paper Series, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2013.
Kagan, Robert. “The Weight of Geopolitics.” Journal of Democracy 26, no. 1 (January 2015): 21-31.
Krastev, Ivan. “The Unraveling of the Post-1989 Order.” Journal of Democracy 27, no. 4 (October 2016): 5-15.
Levitsky, Steven and Lucan Way. “The Myth of Democratic Recession.” Journal of Democracy 26, no. 1 (January 2015): 45-58.
Moller, Jorgen and Svend-Erik Skaaning. “The Third Wave: Inside the Numbers.” Journal of Democracy 24, no. 4 (2013 October): 97-109.
Müller, Jan-Werner. What is Populism? Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
Rudner, Martin. “Al Qaeda’s Twenty-Year Strategic Plan: The Current Phase of Global Terror.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 36, no. 12 (December 2013): 953-980.
Schmitter, Philippe C. and Terry Lynn Karl. “What Democracy Is ... and Is Not.” Journal of Democracy 2, no. 3 (January 1991): 75-88.
Schumpeter, Joseph. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1975, 1976.
Walker, Christopher, “Dealing with the Authoritarian Resurgence” In Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy, edited by Larry Diamond, Marc Plattner, and Christopher Walker, 216-232. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2016.