Larry Jay Diamond

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Larry Jay Diamond

Larry Jay Diamond (born October 2, 1951 ) is an American sociologist and political scientist . He teaches as a professor at Stanford University and is also a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution . His specialty is democracy research , he coined the thesis of a global “recession of democracy”.

Diamond studied at Stanford University, where he took his bachelor's degree in 1974 and his master's degree in 1978, and in 1980 his Ph.D. received his doctorate. Before returning to Stanford University as a professor in 1985, he was an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University for five years .

Diamond's thesis of the global "recession of democracy" was received internationally. In numerous studies, he emphasized that the cause - regardless of where the decline can be observed - usually does not lie so much in economic failure, but in the breakdown of democratic structures and democratic attitudes in the elite and in the population. Corruption, for example, destroys democracy. "Democracies," said Diamond, "fail when the people lose faith in them and the elites abandon their norms of political advantage."

Fonts (selection)

  • As editor with Marc F. Plattner and Christopher Walker: Authoritarianism goes global. The challenge to democracy . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2016, ISBN 978-1-421-41997-8 .
  • In search of democracy . Routledge, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-415-78127-5 .
  • As editor with Marc F. Plattner: Democracy in decline? Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2015, ISBN 978-1-421-41818-6 .
  • The spirit of democracy. The struggle to build free societies throughout the world . Times Books / Henry Holt and Co., New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-805-07869-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lemma: Diamond, Larry Jay , social networks and archival context (snac), accessed March 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ Biographical information is based on curriculum vitae: Larry J. Diamond , Stanford University , PDF, accessed on March 5, 2017.
  3. ↑ Arno Widmann : Democratic structures are declining . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , March 20, 2016, accessed on March 5, 2017.
  4. ↑ Quoted from Johannes Thumfart: Decline of Democracy. Why populism is not the cause . In: Spiegel-Online, accessed on March 5, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Diamond, Larry Jay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1951