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The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World

Larry Diamond

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Francis Fukuyama recommends it
If it's okay with you, I put two of Larry's books on the list. I think they do need to be read in conjunction with one another because they're written perhaps ten years apart. The Spirit of Democracy still reflected the optimism of what Samuel Huntington labeled 'the third wave of democratization'.

on fivebooks.com · 26 Jul 2021

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