Author: Suhas Palshikar | Journal of Democracy

Suhas Palshikar is professor of political science at the University of Pune in India.

January 2008, Volume 19, Issue 1

The Democracy Barometers (Part II): Surveying South Asia

Peter R. deSouza
Suhas Palshikar
Yogendra Yadav

While the people of South Asia, especially those with higher levels of education and exposure to the media, prefer democracy to authoritarianism, they are willing to relax some of the requirements of liberal democracy.

How People View Democracy

Marc F. Plattner
Larry Diamond

No serious student of democracy can afford to be without this book. It offers an original and comprehensive view of what citizens around the world think as democracy's global "third wave" prepares to enter its fourth and perhaps most challenging decade.