The Reading Room

Living author

Larry Diamond

1951-

The political scientist who has spent his career studying how democracies are built, sustained, and lost around the world. His work on democratic resilience asks the practical question beneath the theory: what can citizens and institutions actually do to hold a free society together when it comes under strain? He writes for the practitioner as much as the scholar.

In the library

  • Ill Fares the Land

    The literature of what citizens can actually do, the practical question beneath all the theory. The scholars of democratic resilience ask not only how democracies fail...