The Meanings of Democracy: Introduction

Issue Date October 2010
Volume 21
Issue 4
Page Numbers 102-105
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About the Author

Larry Diamond is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, and founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy.

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