Description: Schmitter, Amartya Sen, Alfred Stepan, Palle Svensson, Nicolas van de Walle, Lucan A. Way
Brief description: Marc F. Plattner is vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. Plattner and Diamond are coeditors of the Journal of Democracy.
Review Quotes: In all, this is an excellent book for students of politics, and would also be a great benefit to many of democracy's practitioners.
--Prof. Damien Kingsbury, Forum