The Illusion of Liberal Autocracy

Issue Date October 2003
Volume 14
Issue 4
Page Numbers 167-171
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A review of The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria.

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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School for Dictators

A review of The Dictator’s Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy by William J. Dobson

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Illiberal Democracy and the Struggle on the Right

At present, the key struggle for the future of liberal democracy appears as if it will be unfolding among parties and thinkers on the right.

Volume 24, Issue 3

The Durability of Revolutionary Regimes

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