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Marc F. Plattner
Marc F. Plattner is coeditor of the Journal of Democracy, vice-president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and codirector of the International Forum for Democratic Studies.He served as NED's director of program from 1984 to 1989. During the 2002–2003 academic year he was a visiting professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has previously been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (1983–84); Advisor on Economic and Social Affairs at the United States Mission to the United Nations (1981–83); program officer at the Century Foundation (formerly the Twentieth Century Fund), a private foundation in New York City (1975–81); and managing editor of The Public Interest, a quarterly journal on public policy (1971–75).
Dr. Plattner graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and received his Ph.D. in government from Cornell University, where his principal area of study was political philosophy.
He is the author of Democracy Without Borders? Global Challenges to Liberal Democracy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008); Rousseau's State of Nature (1979), a study of the political thought of Jean Jacques Rousseau; and the editor of Human Rights in Our Time (1984). Over the past two decades, he has coedited more than twenty books on contemporary issues relating to democracy: How People View Democracy (2008); Latin America’s Struggle for Democracy (2008); The State of India’s Democracy (2007); Electoral Systems and Democracy (2006);World Religions and Democracy (2005); Islam and Democracy in the Middle East (2003); Democracy After Communism (2002); The Global Divergence of Democracies (2001); Globalization, Power, and Democracy (2000); The Liberal Tradition in Focus: Problems and New Perspectives (2000); The Democratic Invention (2000); Democracy in Africa (1999); The Self-Restraining State: Power and Accountability in New Democracies (1999); Democracy in East Asia (1998); Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies, Vol. 1: Themes and Perspectives, Vol. 2: Regional Challenges (1997); Civil-Military Relations and Democracy (1996); Economic Reform and Democracy (1995); Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict and Democracy (1994); Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy Revisited (1993); and The Global Resurgence of Democracy (1993; 2nd Edition, 1996). His articles on a wide range of international and public policy issues have appeared in numerous books and journals.
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