Larry Diamond

“Look at who he's reached out to,” says Stanford University's Larry Diamond, one of the foremost US experts on democracy worldwide. “He has expressed admiration for (Hungary's illiberal leader Viktor) Orban, (Philippine President Rodrigo) Duterte, Xi, even Kim Jong Un, while the leaders he has ...

“Look at who he's reached out to,” says Stanford University's Larry Diamond, one of the foremost U.S. experts on democracy worldwide. “He has expressed admiration for [Hungary's illiberal leader, Viktor] Orban, [Philippine President Rodrigo] Duterte, Xi, even Kim Jong Un, while the leaders he has ...

"It is a very odd choice for someone who says he was against going to war in Iraq," said Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a center of Republican foreign policy scholarship who served as a senior adviser to the U.S. government in Iraq during the George W. Bush ...

In the past two years, a wave of distressing commentary has stressed the fragility of American democracy and the potential, inspired by President Trump, for emerging authoritarianism. But a year into the Trump administration, Americans are rejecting authoritarian alternatives to democracy. In a new survey ...

Are Americans losing faith in democracy? The answer to this question, according to the latest report from the bipartisan Voter Study Group, is no. Authors Lee Drutman (New America), Larry Diamond (Stanford University), and Joe Goldman (Democracy Fund) find that since 2014, the share of Americans ...

Two local guys we've covered before, Jack Mosbacher and Rooney Pitchford, are playing at Slims in San Francisco on March 16. Jack went to Menlo School and Stanford; Rooney to Sacred Heart Prep and Stanford. We talked to Jack in 2012 when he was working for his mentor Larry Diamond as a ...

Pro-Beijing lawmaker Regina Ip has said that the impending removal of the Chinese presidents' term limits is within reason under the country's own political tradition and systems. Delegates to the National People's Congress applauded twice when the official explanation was read out at a key session on ...

What Stanford professor Larry Diamond described 10 years ago as a “democratic recession” shows no sign of ending. The nature of this recession is perhaps best seen by looking at the state of the free press worldwide. Take Kenya, until very recently considered a hopeful story of democratic progress.

What Stanford professor Larry Diamond described 10 years ago as a “democratic recession” shows no sign of ending. The nature of this recession is perhaps best seen by looking at the state of the free press worldwide. Take Kenya, until very recently considered a hopeful story of democratic progress.

In this year's report, scores dropped for more than half the world's countries. What Stanford University professor Larry Diamond described 10 years ago as a "democratic recession" shows no sign of ending. The nature of this recession is perhaps best seen by looking at the state of the free press worldwide.

Senator Joseph McCarthy assailed Americans' civil liberties and their credulity. Richard Nixon was a crook. Surveying America's political history, Larry Diamond of Stanford University divines “a general pattern of resilience, punctuated by dark periods of authoritarian temptation.” Indeed the two are related; ...

We are at a tipping point. Around the world, many democracies are hanging by a thread and autocrats are preparing more savage assaults on what remains of freedom. Published on: February 16, 2018. Larry Diamond is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He coordinates the democracy program of ...

Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, recently painted a chilling picture of China's surveillance state, detailing an evolving “social credit ... The impetus for the conversation was an article by Diamond and Stanford researcher Anna Mitchell that appeared in The Atlantic entitled “China's ...

Join Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University for a discussion on whether there is an emerging crisis of liberal democracy. Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazil Studies, Harvard Kennedy ...

“There haven't been very many instances in recent years where a small state has had the potential to have such an impact on national reform efforts,” says Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. “If Maine implements this, the momentum for adopting similar initiatives and ...