Do You Live in a Democracy?: What All Democracies Have in Common

INTERVIEW

MARCH/APRIL 2020

DEMOCRACY AND LIBERALISM

VOL. 4, NO. 2, PGS. 1–8

A conversation with Larry Diamond

This interview was conducted by Javier Toro.

Larry Diamond is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency.

Why are there so many names for democracy (liberal democracy, electoral democracy, and so on)? Are they all true democracies?

Well, it all depends on the definition and the terminology. I think that the only full democracy is a liberal democracy, and by that, I mean not anything about the economic system or neoliberal economic policies and structures, but having the full complement of guarantees for liberty, for rights, for [...]

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lordonezv

04/05/2021

A los interesados en el tema les recomiendo leer "Civilidad: teoría política de la postmodernidad" de Fernando Mires, Editorial Trotta, 2001

Francisco

11/02/2021

Una de las graves consecuencias de una pobre educación para la ciudadanía es el autoritarismo disfrazado de democracia. Este tipo de regímenes es, lamentablemente, una experiencia cada vez más acentuada en nuestros países latinoamericanos. La mejor forma de prevenir esta perversión de la vida democrática es educando y fortaleciendo la autonomía de las instituciones.

MONCHO

10/02/2021

Cordial saludo,

Agradecer por compartir información de importante relevancia.

lordonezv

06/02/2021

Las culturas nacionales influyen en estos procesos de democratización. Dimond debe tenerlo presente al estudiar América Latina