Podcast appearances and mentions of Larry Diamond

I don't think Larry Diamond needs much of an introduction – but here we go. He is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. For decades, his research has focused on democratic trends and conditions around the world, as well as on policies and reforms to defend and advance democracy. In February, Larry wrote an article titled: Trump's America Is in a Free Fall – Not a Slippery Slope – to Tyranny. So I wanted to hear directly from him: How does he assess what Donald Trump and his people are doing? How can we resist the recession of democracy in the US and around the world? Are there any reasons for optimism? And is he staying in Trump's America? Listen to our conversation. And if you enjoy what I do, please support me on Ko-fi! Thank you. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/amatisak

Professor Larry Diamond er en af verdens største autoriteter, når det kommer til demokratiforskning, og han har brugt mere end et halvt århundrede på at studere emnet. I denne uge gæster han Langsomme samtaler til en vurdering af det amerikanske demokratis aktuelle tilstand --- Hvad gør man, hvis man vil vide mere om det amerikanske demokratis aktuelle krise? Man ringer selvfølgelig til Larry Diamond. Den 73-årige forsker er i dag senior fellow ved The Hoover Institution, professor ved Stanford University, og så har han forsket i demokrati og demokratiske institutioner i mere end et halvt hundrede år. Han er med andre ord en af de største autoriteter inden for international demokratiforskning. Af nogle vil han være kendt for sin tese om democratic recession – eller på dansk: demokratisk tilbagegang – som var en tendens, han begyndte at registrere i det 21. århundrede, og som han med stigende aktualitet har studeret de seneste par årtier. Selv blev Larry David forsker i en tid, hvor demokratiet stadig bredte sig. Fra midten af 1970'erne og frem til år 2000 overgik mange af verdens lande fra autokratier til demokratier. Men så slog recessionen – eller tilbagegangen – ind. Og hvor Larry Diamond før studerede, hvordan vi i Vesten kunne understøtte gryende demokratier i verden – ud fra den antagelse, at demokratierne i Vesten var konsoliderede – er billedet nu vendt om, så den største aktuelle demokratiske krise i de her måneder netop udspiller sig i USA. I denne uges Langsomme samtale med Rune Lykkeberg kan du høre, hvad Larry Diamond har at sige om det amerikanske demokratis aktuelle tilstand. Vil Trump-regeringen påføre varige skader på det amerikanske demokrati? Og hvad kan der gøres for at forhindre det? 

A dramatic week of big acquisitions left Jonah tired, but ranty. Brace for some I Told You So's, “abundance” horseshoe theory, Trumpworld triangulations, and blue-on-blue violence. Show Notes:—The SCOTUSblog acquisition—Wednesday's uncontroversial G-File—Kevin Williamson's critique of the "abundance" Democrats—Jamie Weinstein and Larry Diamond on The Dispatch Podcast The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including Jonah's G-File newsletter, regular livestreams, and other members-only content—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul and democracy scholar Larry Diamond join America at a Crossroads to explore the global state of democracy, the threat of authoritarianism, and America's role in defending freedom. Drawing on deep foreign policy and political experience, they discuss Russia, China, and the future of democratic values at home and abroad.

Jamie Weinstein is joined by sociologist Larry Diamond to explain how democracies rise and fall and what history might tell us about Donald Trump's slouch towards tyranny. The Agenda: —Signs of a democratic crisis —Weaponizing the government —Missing the forest for the trees —Trump 1.0 vs. Trump 2.0 —‘Trump isn't a fascist, he's a golfer' —All the president's men —When to be concerned Show Notes: —Diamond: The Crisis of Democracy Is Here —Diamond's Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency —Judge Wilkinson's rebuke of Trump admin The Dispatch Podcast is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including members-only newsletters, bonus podcast episodes, and regular livestreams—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's conversation, Persuasion editor-in-chief Yascha Mounk was joined by listeners of The Good Fight for a “mailbag” episode, speaking about everything from domestic and global politics to AI.  Larry Diamond's piece The Crisis of Democracy can be found in Persuasion. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: podcast@persuasion.community  Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Leonora Barclay Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Democracy scholar Larry Diamond discusses why democratisation in China and Hong Kong failed, and how activists can keep the global movement against autocracy going as the U.S. turns isolationist.Follow our Substack at Peking HotelAbout usThe Peking Hotel podcast and newsletter are digital publications in which Liu He interviews China specialists about their first-hand experiences and observations from decades past. The project grew out of Liu's research at Hoover Institution collecting oral history of China experts living in the U.S. Their stories are a reminder of what China used to be and what it is capable of becoming. Get full access to Peking Hotel at pekinghotel.substack.com/subscribe

The Washington Roundtable discusses with the Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond about President Trump's attempts to claim broad powers, why most Republican lawmakers have fallen into line out of fear, and whether the United States has already tipped over into authoritarian territory. Plus, how the courts, Congress, and ordinary citizens might course-correct American democracy.This week's reading: “The Crisis of Democracy Is Here,” by Larry Diamond “Trump's Putinization of America,” by Susan B. Glasser “Pulling Our Politics Back from the Brink,” by Evan Osnos (2020) “Month One of Donald Trump's ‘Golden Age,' ” by Antonia Hitchens “We'd Never Had a King Until This Week,” by Bill McKibben “The Trump Administration Trashes Europe and NATO,” by Dexter Filkins “The Second Trump Administration's New Forms of Distraction,” by Kyle Chayka To discover more podcasts from The New Yorker, visit newyorker.com/podcasts. To send in feedback on this episode, write to themail@newyorker.com with “The Political Scene” in the subject line. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

About the series: This is a critical year for the future of democracy. Half the world's population will go to the polls in 2024, at a time when citizens in America and across the globe are losing faith in democratic institutions. We often view the rollback of democracy and threats to the liberal international order as separate problems, but in reality they are closely interlinked. Through a new limited podcast series, MEI's Gonul Tol seeks to examine the interplay between democracy's domestic and international foes as well as how to counter them. In this episode: Last month, the US electorate voted President-Elect Donald Trump back into the White House. His victory was seen by some experts as part of a global trend and a move towards anti-incumbency attitudes and populism. How will Trump's rhetoric impact the United States domestically and internationally? Will he govern as a strongman during his second term? What can we expect to be different from his first term? Dr. Larry Diamond, Mosbacher Senior Fellow of Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and author of Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency, and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University and author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, join host Gonul Tol to discuss Trump's election.

On Wall Street overnight the S&P 500 notched another fresh record high ending the day up 0.05%, while the Nasdaq added 0.4% and the Dow Jones underperformed the market with a decline of 0.17%. Key US jobs data also out overnight indicated there were more job openings in October than September with 7.74 million openings which topped Dow Jones estimates of 7.5 million, indicating the labour market is cooling.In Europe overnight markets closed mostly higher as investors assessed political instability in France. The STOXX 600 rose 0.44%, Germany's DAX added 0.42%, the French CAC rose 0.3% which was a pullback from earlier gains following France's PM Michael Barnier turning to special constitutional powers to pass a contested budget bill without parliamentary vote. And, in the UK, the FTSE100 ended the day up 0.56%.Across the Asia markets on Tuesday, it was a green finish as markets in the region tracked record closes for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq in the US on Monday. Japan's Nikkei rose 2.22% on Tuesday, Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 1%, South Korea's Kospi index added 1.71%, and China's CSI index added 0.11%.The ASX rose 0.6% on Tuesday setting a third record high in the past week and boosting the key index over 8500 for the first time in history during the day. The year-to-date gains for the ASX have now risen to almost 12% buoyed by the strong tech rally this year which has propelled the tech sector up 58% year-to-date. KFC Australia operator Collins Foods (ASX:CKF) lagged the market gains yesterday with a loss over 4% after the company revised FY25 earnings guidance downwards amid a challenging consumer market and sticky inflationary pressures. Zip Co (ASX:ZIP) shares also fell 0.6% after co-founder Larry Diamond sold $100m worth of shares in the buy now, pay later company a day after he resigned from the board to focus on family and philanthropic ventures.What to watch today:Australia's retail sales data for October released on Monday showed that despite the high cost-of-living environment, Aussies are still spending with retail sales up 3.4% in October compared to a year earlier. Cafes, restaurants, and takeaway services recorded a rise of 2.3% while ‘other retailing' which includes cosmetics, sport and recreational goods' rose a significant 8.4%. This rise in retail spend adds to the RBA's inflation journey headache as retail spend is a key driver of inflation remaining sticky in Australia.On the commodities front this morning, oil is trading almost 3% higher at US$70.15/barrel, gold is up 0.12% at US$2645/ounce and iron ore is up 2.81% at US$105.32/tonne.The Aussie dollar has slightly weakened overnight to buy US$65.11, 96.88 Japanese Yen, 51.14 British Pence and NZ$1.10.Ahead of the midweek trading session in Australia the SPI futures are anticipating the ASX will open the day down 0.35%.Trading Ideas:Bell Potter has initiated coverage of Fenix Resources (ASX:FEX) with a buy rating and a price target of 41cps as the analyst sees the WA-based mining company's portfolio of low-capital mining assets and integrated logistics networks should continue to underpin robust cash flows, funding growth expenditure and shareholder returns.Trading Central has identified a bullish signal on Nick Scali (ASX:NCK) following the formation of a pattern over a period of 24-days which is roughly the same amount of time the share price may rise from the close of $14.47 to the range of $15.40 to $15.60 according to standard principles of technical analysis.

The Election is Over: What Do the Results Mean for Ukraine, the Middle East, and U.S. Foreign Policy?MICHAEL McFAUL served for five years in the Obama administration, first as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House (2009-2012), and then as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation from 2012 to 2014. He is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, where he serves as Director and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.LARRY DIAMOND is an American political sociologist and leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies. Diamond is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

David French and Larry Diamond join the group to mull the nature of Trump's victory and the stupefying appointments to DOJ and DNI. Highlights / Lowlights David French: Politics are terrible and sports are terrible, at least for David. Kentucky Wildcats, Tennessee Titans, and Ja Morant's injury. Damon Linker: A viral tweet and the disappointing Republican whataboutism. Larry Diamond: A vignette about Matt Gaetz's selection and surprising a prominent Republican with the news.  Bill Galston: The Onion has won the bid for Infowars' assets Mona Charen: Season 2 of Bad Sisters.

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GOOD EVENING: The show begins in San Francisco origin of VPOTUS political career... 1900 US imint SF CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9:00-9:15 Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution: San Francisco Harris 9:15-9:30 Lancaster County Report: Musk arriving. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety 9:30-9:45 Richard Epstein: Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3 9:45-10:00 Richard Epstein: Taxing Social Security SECOND HOUR 10:00-10:15 Josh Rogin, Washington Post: Harris and the Arab/Muslim vote 10:15-10:30 Lorenzo Fiori: Harvesting Olives After the Rains 10:30-10:45 Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com: Spaceport in Ireland 10:45-11:00 Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com: Images of Europa THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 5/8: The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 by Nick Lloyd 11:15-11:30 6/8: The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 by Nick Lloyd 11:30-11:45 7/8: The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 by Nick Lloyd 11:45-12:00 8/8: The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 by Nick Lloyd FOURTH HOUR 12:00-12:15 Henry Sokolski: "Nuclear Safety and Security in an Insecure World" 12:15-12:30 Grant Newsham: Palau votes on November 5, too 12:30-12:45 1/2: Larry Diamond, Hoover Institution: Democracy Recession over? 12:45-1:00am 2/2: Larry Diamond, Hoover Institution: Democracy Recession over? Changes made: - Standardized time formats - Added consistent spacing and punctuation - Fixed segment numbering in Third Hour (was out of sequence) - Added commas after institutional affiliations - Standardized formatting throughout - Removed duplicate URL and review quote - Fixed spacing around colons - Added proper spacing between sections

What are the risks to a peaceful transition of power once all the votes have been cast? What can we learn from history and from other democracies about our moment of democratic peril? How worried should we be about the risks of political violence? On Season 6, Episode 3 of the ELB Podcast we speak with Republican election lawyer Ben Ginsberg, the Hoover Institution's Larry Diamond, the Carnegie Endowment's Rachel Kleinfeld, and USC law dean Franita Tolson.

The severe uptick in antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents on collegecampuses since the October 7 Hamas massacre in Israel has been widelydocumented. In late 2023, Stanford University's President appointed ourAmerica at a Crossroads guests, Larry Diamond, a senior fellow both atStanford's Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute forInternational Studies and Professor Jeffrey Kosseff, to co-chair aCommittee to study antisemitism and anti-Israel bias on campus. TheCommittee conducted more than 50 different listening sessions and asmany individual interviews; hundreds of undergraduates, graduatestudents, faculty, staff, alumni, and parents participated. The Committeeissued a Report that they found widespread and pernicious antisemitism aswell as a failure on the part of the University to respond to complaints. Thisprogram reviews the findings contained in the Stanford Report and thespeakers discuss similar findings on other campuses. A key element of theCommittee's work was to make recommendations as to what must be doneto address this serious and growing problem.

In this conversation at the Review of Democracy, András Bozóki – author of the new collection Töréspontok. Tanulmányok az autokrácia kialakulásáról (Breaking Points. Studies on the Formation of Autocracy) – reflects on what has made the anti-democratic turn in Hungary so effective and discusses what has surprised him the most about the evolution of the Orbán regime; comments on the regime's attempted remaking of Hungarian elite groups and its uses of ideology to legitimate its rule; evaluates his thesis on the Orbán regime being an “externally constrained hybrid regime” in light of more recent developments; and assesses the role of his own generation, the 1989ers, in the longer arc of history.   András Bozóki is Professor at the Department of Political Science at the Central European University and a research affiliate of the CEU Democracy Institute. His main fields of research include democratization, de-democratization, political regimes, ideologies, Central European politics, and the role of intellectuals.   Töréspontok. Tanulmányok az autokrácia kialakulásáról (Breaking Points. Studies on the Formation of Autocracy) has been published by Gondolat Kiadó.   Ferenc Laczó: You have just released a large and exciting collection in Hungarian under the title Töréspontok. Tanulmányok az autokrácia kialakulásáról, which might be translated as Breaking Points. Studies on the Formation of Autocracy. This new volume of some 500 pages collects sixteen important articles that you have authored or co-authored since 2013 and presents them in a largely chronological fashion. The Orbán regime has clearly been a central concern of yours. How this regime has emerged, how it operates, how it may be classified, and what can be said about its international embeddedness—these are all questions that are repeatedly raised and considered on these pages. You have evidently been studying a moving target since the early 2010s. I wanted to start our conversation there: How has your understanding of the Orbán regime evolved over the years? What was foreseeable to you already back in the early 2010s about where this regime would be heading, and what came rather as a surprise to you in more recent years? András Bozóki: There was already a de-consolidation of democracy, in the form of increasing political polarization, between 2006 and 2010. However, according to all international democracy-measuring institutes, Hungary was still a liberal democracy up until 2010, despite all the troubles. People were disappointed with the government of the time; they found it ineffective, and they wanted a more decisive turn towards what was supposed to be a more democratic system. It was interesting to see that, while Viktor Orbán started his de-democratization project quite early on, it was propagated as making the system more democratic. Forget about the rule of law and all these legal nuances, or what the Constitutional Court defends, or the ombudsman, all these legal brakes on the regime. Let the people govern, let the will of the people rule without any brakes. Autocratization was sold as democratization. As a political scientist I was surprised by three phenomena in the process of de-democratization: weak popular identification with democracy, the effectiveness of political propaganda, and, third, the radical change in Hungarian foreign policy.  As someone who used to be a member of Fidesz at the change of the regime, but left it early, I had no illusions about Orbán. My surprise is not so much about his behavior as a leader, but about the passive behavior of Hungarian society. I did not expect that the democratic backsliding process would go so swiftly, and without much social resistance, I would say. That was a major disappointment: that people didn't see the existent democracy as something worth fighting for, worth defending. They said that democracy is just about a multiparty system and nothing more. It is not about the spirit of the people, it is only about weak institutions and corrupt party machineries. They didn't want to defend that system. It was easy, retrospectively speaking, for Orbán to change the regime because the social resistance was surprisingly weak. My second surprise concerns the effectiveness of propaganda. I did not believe that propaganda after the 1950s can again be used for direct political purposes in Hungary, that a country which survived Communism can go back to daily propaganda. But that happened in 2015 with the migration crisis and the 2016 referendum afterwards. It was just intolerable. In the late Communist period, the regime was not propagandistic at all. They had neither ideology, nor propaganda; it was just based on traditional mentalities. It was striking to see that propaganda can again be effective, together with the manipulation of social media, and make citizens change their opinion concerning foreign migrants. Before 2015, there was no Islamophobia in Hungary at all, unlike some traditional anti-Semitism. However, the Orbán regime propagated Islamophobia and mixed it up with anti-Roma sentiments. And, finally, I did not expect Orbán to become a pro-Putin politician. I mean, I do not have to tell you that back in the 19th century, the Russian army destroyed the Hungarian Revolution and struggle for freedom; then, during the Second World War, they came to Hungary, and there are now accounts about their activity beyond the fronts, like not only killing people, but raping hundreds of thousands of women; then crushing the Hungarian Revolution in 1956; and stationing troops in Hungary for decades. Hungary was not as anti-communist a country as Poland, but there were strong anti-Soviet sentiments. “Russians, go home” was a leading slogan of the 1956 Revolution. That Orbán could change this and make Fidesz supporters pro-Russian, anti-EU, pro-war—that was something truly unexpected. They may now present themselves as the “party of peace,” but they actually support Russia's war against Ukraine and have some invisible but easily detectable relationship with Putin such as economic and political collaboration. That has been genuinely surprising. Orbán currently holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU and is working on the deconstruction of the Union. The Trojan horse has arrived. FL: Several pieces included in this new collection address the regime debate that has been raging concerning Orbán's rule. As part of that, you discuss its illiberal and antidemocratic features, and critique the widely used concept of ‘illiberal democracy' in particular. You write about ‘electoral autocracy' instead, and some years ago even formulated the thesis of a ‘liberal autocracy.' Which key conclusions would you draw today from those regime debates? What might be key points of consensus among scholars despite their different emphases and terminological choices? AB: The first few years after 2010 were a shock. What should we call this regime? It was the constitutional lawyers, plus economist János Kornai, who claimed that the regime is moving fast towards autocracy. It was the constitutional lawyers—Gábor Halmai, Kim Lane Scheppele, Imre Vörös, and others—who claimed that there was an unconstitutional putsch when the new constitution started to be used for anti-constitutional purposes, when it was used to change the legal system and undermine the rule of law by 2013. In contrast, political scientists were rather quiet in those early years. They said: Let's wait for the elections in 2014 to see whether these early warnings have been well-substantiated or not. Political scientists started to speak about electoral autocracy, or hybrid regimes, only after 2014, when the constitutional lawyers were already sounding the alarm that this was the end of the rule of law. Political scientists responded basically by saying, “Fine, but the rule of law is just one side of the story. What about free elections and the will of the people?” But, as it turned out, we could not consider the 2014 elections honest elections. It was free, but unfair. And that opened the way to the regime debates, which dominated the mid-2010s in Hungarian political science. There were several interesting approaches, such as the concepts of ‘mafia state', neo-Bolshevism, re-feudalization, prebendalism, illiberal democratic capitalism, plebiscitary leader democracy, transmuted fascism, party-state, post-fascism, populist electoral autocracy and the likes. Also a distinction has been made between regime and rendszer – ‘regime' and ‘system', though the meaning of the Hungarian distinction does not translate well into English – or concerning the practices of the political formula vis-à-vis the formalities of institutional order. There were a lot of different approaches. At this point Orbán proudly came up with the notion of ‘illiberal democracy.' In English, ‘illiberal' sounds pretty derogatory. I do not think Orbán felt that it was that way. He wanted to state that “We want to keep democracy but make a break with liberalism.” But illiberal democracy means something else: it is not a democracy but a sort of hybrid regime. Still, not only Orbán but some political scientists in Hungary also wanted to argue that ‘illiberal democracy' is just a form of democracy: there is a Western liberal democracy and there is a non-Western democracy which might be illiberal but is equally legitimate. I did not like those attempts. I did not think they were scholarly. I realized that being in the EU, there is a stronger defense of the rule of law from European Union institutions than from domestic elements. When people were prevented from initiating a referendum in Hungary in early 2016, I clearly felt that this meant the end of any sort of democracy. But maybe there is a new form of autocracy which keeps some sort of remnants of liberalism due to the constraints of the European Union. So, I was venturing with the concept of ‘liberal autocracy' around the time. It is not my invention, Fareed Zakaria and Larry Diamond were debating it back around the turn of the millennium. Hong Kong was called a liberal autocracy, even the ideal type of a liberal autocracy when human rights were respected, but there was no democracy because the government was not elected by the people—though Diamond thought that having a liberal autocracy was illusionary. Around 2015, I met Dániel Hegedűs, a younger colleague of mine. As an expert of EU politics, he pointed out the dubious role of the EU toward Hungary. We realized that the unparalleled specificity of this regime is indeed that it is located within the EU, and we have to focus on the interplay between Hungary and the European Union. Since EU legislation has domestic impact in Hungary, we cannot fully separate these two entities: following the principle of subsidiarity, some parts of sovereignty are given up by each Member State. So let us see what the consequences of EU membership are. Concerning Hungary, we came up with the proposition of an externally constrained – but also supported and legitimized – hybrid regime. There was a huge debate about the latter notion too, whether ‘hybrid regime' makes sense or not. It is a bit too broad of a category, but it was suitable for covering those years when Hungary was no longer a democracy, but not yet an autocracy. We can still use it today: if the Hungarian state is an electoral autocracy, it is still part of the hybrid regime category on the authoritarian end of the spectrum. Our article gained remarkable international attention and it came to be seen as our statement. In the years since 2018, these regime debates have slowly lost significance and lost their importance. Everything has been said, I think. The new consensus may be that nobody calls Hungary a modern democracy anymore. People realize that there was de-democratization, democratic erosion, backsliding – whatever you want to call it. More recently, academics have been talking about autocratization, not democratic backsliding, which can be a backsliding within democracy whereas autocratization trespasses the line between democracy and autocracy. I should add that this volume just collects some of the articles I wrote at different moments in time between 2013 and 2023. I see how naïve I was at certain points. I tried to correct myself later and was correcting myself again after that. Of course, I did not want to change what I wrote ten years ago, so this collection also shows how my thinking has changed. The lesson I learned from the debate on the nature of the regime is that a purely political science approach and the use of purely political science concepts are not enough to understand the Orbán regime. You need to have historical and sociological knowledge, and an interdisciplinary approach is needed. In Embedded Autocracy: Hungary in the European Union, the book I have just co-authored with Zoltán Fleck, we combine political science concepts with sociological approaches to conclude that the Orbán regime might be an electoral autocracy politically speaking, however it can be called an embedded autocracy from the social point of view. FL: The collection focuses extensively on how Hungary's antidemocratic turn has unfolded in the early twenty-first century. The decline of democracy in the country has been conspicuous, making Hungary a rather notorious case even in global comparison. What do you view as critical junctures during this process of de-democratization? And what might explain the overall effectiveness of such an anti-democratic turn in Hungary? AB: On the one hand, it was a smooth change. On the other, there were some critical junctures, some breaking points. I think that, as I said, many people did not value democracy, or better to say, they had different understandings of democracy. I think that the twenty years between 1990 and 2010 were a shining moment in the history of Hungary – in a history stretching over a thousand years, we had two decades of liberal democracy, and I feel fortunate to have been part of this story. Having said that, part of the answer is that this democracy was not without problems. To put it this way, the government lost credibility right after 2006 and they lost the 2008 referendum. People really wanted a change of government, or maybe an early election which the government refused to hold. They just did not feel the danger; they felt that there was just a normal crisi

The Hoover Project on China's Global Sharp Power and Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region held The Boiling Moat event on Thursday, May 30, 2024 from 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm PT. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has openly expressed his intention to annex Taiwan to mainland China, even threatening the use of force. An invasion or blockade of Taiwan by Chinese forces would be catastrophic, with severe consequences for democracies worldwide. In The Boiling Moat, a new book from the Hoover Institution Press, Matt Pottinger and a team of scholars and distinguished military and political leaders urgently outline practical steps for deterrence. The authors stress that preventing a war is more affordable than waging one and emphasize the importance of learning from recent failures in deterrence, such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Featuring Matt Pottinger, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, and Larry Diamond, William L. Clayton Senior Fellow. Pottinger and Diamond will be joined by contributors to The Boiling Moatproject: Gabriel Collins, Andrew Erickson, Robert Haddick, Isaac Harris, Michael Hunzeker, Ivan Kanapathy, Mark Montgomery, and Grant Newsham.

The Hoover Project on China's Global Sharp Power held Hong Kong After the National Security Law on Tuesday, May 14 from 4-5:30pm PT.  This event presented perspectives on the current political and civic climate in Hong Kong since the passage of the National Security Law on June 30, 2020 and the imposition of Article 23 on March 23, 2024. How have these developments fit into the broader history of the struggle for democracy in Hong Kong? What has changed in Hong Kong's once vibrant civil society? What is the latest on the trials of pro-democracy activists? How have diasporic advocates constructed a Hong Kong political identity in exile? Four panelists—Ambassador James Cunningham, the Chairman of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong and former Consul General of the United States to Hong Kong and Macau (2005-2008); Sebastien Lai, a democracy advocate and son of jailed Hong Kong businessman and publisher Jimmy Lai; Sophie Richardson, the former China Director at Human Rights Watch; and Cherie Wong, the former leader of Alliance Canada Hong Kong (ACHK)—will discuss these issues and more in a conversation moderated by Hoover William L. Clayton Senior Fellow Larry Diamond. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Ambassador James B. Cunningham retired from government service at the end of 2014.  He is currently a consultant, a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, an adjunct faculty member at Syracuse University's Maxwell School, and Board Chair of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation. He served as Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ambassador to Israel, Consul General in Hong Kong, and Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Ambassador Cunningham was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania and graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Asia Society, the National Committee on US-China Relations, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. Sebastien Lai leads the international campaign to free his father Jimmy Lai, the pro democracy activist and publisher currently jailed by the Hong Kong government. Having had international calls for his release from multiple states including the US and the UK, Jimmy Lai's ongoing persecution mirrors the rapid decline of human rights, press freedom and rule of law in the Chinese territory.  Sophie Richardson is a longtime activist and scholar of Chinese politics, human rights, and foreign policy.  From 2006 to 2023, she served as the China Director at Human Rights Watch, where she oversaw the organization's research and advocacy. She has published extensively on human rights, and testified to the Canadian Parliament, European Parliament, and the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Dr. Richardson is the author of China, Cambodia, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (Columbia University Press, Dec. 2009), an in-depth examination of China's foreign policy since 1954's Geneva Conference, including rare interviews with Chinese policy makers. She speaks Mandarin, and received her doctorate from the University of Virginia and her BA from Oberlin College. Her current research focuses on the global implications of democracies' weak responses to increasingly repressive Chinese governments, and she is advising several China-focused human rights organizations.  Cherie Wong (she/her) is a non-partisan policy analyst and advocate. Her influential leadership at Alliance Canada Hong Kong (ACHK), a grassroots community organization, had garnered international attention for its comprehensive research publications and unwavering advocacy in Canada-China relations. ACHK disbanded in November 2023. Recognized for her nuanced and progressive approach, Cherie is a sought-after authority among decision-makers, academics, journalists, researchers, and policymakers. Cherie frequently appeared in parliamentary committees and Canadian media as an expert commentator, speaking on diverse public policy issues such as international human rights, foreign interference, and transnational repression.  Larry Diamond is the William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He is also professor, by courtesy, of political science and sociology at Stanford. He co-chairs the Hoover Institution's programs on China's Global Sharp Power and on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region.

In 2024 four billion people will vote in the biggest election year in history, which will see existential tests for democracy in the US, India and elsewhere. What is shaping the battle between democracy and autocracy? And who is winning? Ellection-distorting technology is outpacing governments' ability to regulate it. Can democracy survive the uncontrolled spread of A.I., deepfakes and disinformation technology? Emma Beals talks to “Godfather of democracy studies” Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, and Katie Harbath – former Facebook Public Policy Director, and founder of Anchor Change – about a critical year for democracy.     Support This Is Not A Drill on Patreon to get early episodes, merchandise and more. Written and presented by Emma Beals. Produced by Robin Leeburn. Original theme music by Paul Hartnoll – https://www.orbitalofficial.com. Executive Producer Martin Bojtos. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. This Is Not A Drill is a Podmasters production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Larry Diamond once again joins Francis Fukuyama for a year-end review to discuss the state of global democracy as 2023 draws to a close. Diamond also recounts his Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture, the 20th iteration of the annual lecture series named in honor of the famed political scientist and sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for Democracy, the Munk School at the University of Toronto, and the Canadian Embassy.Larry Diamond is the William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University.  He is also a professor by courtesy of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford. His research focuses on democratic trends and conditions around the world and on policies and reforms to defend and advance democracy. His latest edited book (with Orville Schell), China's Influence and American Interests (Hoover Press, 2019), urges a posture of constructive vigilance toward China's global projection of “sharp power,” which it sees as a rising threat to democratic norms and institutions. He offers a massive open online course (MOOC) on Comparative Democratic Development through the edX platform and is now writing a textbook to accompany it.Diamond's book, Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency, analyzes the challenges confronting liberal democracy in the United States and around the world at this potential “hinge in history,” and offers an agenda for strengthening and defending democracy at home and abroad. A paperback edition with a new preface was released by Penguin in April 2020. His other books include: In Search of Democracy (2016), The Spirit of Democracy (2008), Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (1999),  Promoting Democracy in the 1990s (1995), and Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria (1989). He has also edited or coedited more than forty books on democratic development around the world, most recently, Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years.Democracy IRL is produced by the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), part of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University.To learn more, visit our website or follow us on social media.

Larry Diamond, Co-Founder and US CEO of Zip a Leading Financial Services Company https://zip.co/us Show Notes About The Guest(s): Larry Diamond is the co-founder and CEO of Zip, a leading financial services company that offers innovative payment solutions. With a background in retail technology and investment banking, Larry co-founded Zip in 2013 with the goal of disrupting the traditional credit card model. Today, Zip is listed as an ASX company and has millions of customers globally. Summary: Larry Diamond, co-founder and CEO of Zip, joins Chris Voss on The Chris Voss Show to discuss how Zip is disrupting the world of financial services with its innovative payment solutions. Zip offers a "credit card of tomorrow" for underserved customers, allowing them to pay later and build their credit profile over time. With a focus on customer-centricity, Zip aims to be the first payment choice everywhere and every day. Key Takeaways: Zip is a buy now pay later service that provides flexible and accessible payment options for customers. Customers can use Zip at various merchants and even generate a virtual credit card for purchases anywhere. Zip's underwriting process takes into account alternative data assets in addition to FICO scores. Merchants can integrate Zip into their e-commerce platforms easily, leading to increased conversion rates and sales. Zip is focused on responsible lending and encourages customers to pay back their purchases quickly. Quotes: "We want to disrupt the world of financial services and provide a credit card of tomorrow for the customer of tomorrow." - Larry Diamond "Zip is the product that customers have gravitated to for its flexibility and ease of use." - Larry Diamond "We use a range of alternative data assets in our underwriting process to better understand customers." - Larry Diamond "Zip's integration with e-commerce platforms has led to a 20% increase in conversion and top-line sales for merchants." - Larry Diamond "We encourage customers to pay back their purchases quickly and responsibly." - Larry Diamond Biography Meet Larry Diamond, the unstoppable force behind Zip Co's meteoric rise as a global fintech leader. As the Global CEO, Larry's entrepreneurial saga unfurls across continents, beginning in Sydney and crossing the ocean to New York, culminating in Zip Co's status as an international fintech behemoth. Larry isn't just a CEO; he is a visionary, a trailblazer whose story illustrates the potent combination of grit, innovation, and strategic acumen. Co-founding Zip Co in 2013, Larry propelled the company on a trajectory of exponential growth, securing its position in the global fintech ecosystem. This remarkable journey has seen Zip Co extend its reach beyond Australia, with Larry at the helm, forging partnerships with leading international brands and retailers.

Ruth Ben Ghiat with Larry Diamond | Strongmen and Autocrats Today: Proliferating or Declining?

Sandy Vasecka represents Ward 6 on the Missoula City Council and she is running for reelection. Larry Diamond is a globally renowned democracy expert from Stanford University.

Larry Diamond is one of the world's most renowned scholars of democracy. In an interview with Biznews, the senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) highlighted the perils democracy currently faces. Prof Diamond warned that a potential victory for Donald Trump in the 2024 US presidential election would not only be a catastrophe for the United States but also have profound global implications. He expressed concerns about Trump's admiration for authoritarian leaders and his contempt for Africa. Shifting his focus to South African politics, Prof Diamond, who had recently visited Cape Town, stressed the essential role of improved governance in attracting domestic and foreign investment to create jobs. He believed that South Africa's energy crisis could be resolved through renewable energy solutions and a new generation of battery and nuclear technology. Prof Diamond also voiced disappointment regarding the Democratic Alliance's (DA) inability to progress towards a multiracial leadership. He said South Africa has enormous talent across the board and needs leadership to make the strategic decisions that will harness that talent.

Marc Plattner is the founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy and the founding codirector of the National Endowment for Democracy's International Forum for Democratic Studies. Until 2016, he also served as NED's vice president for research and studies, and from 1984 to 1989 he was NED's director of program.  He is the author of Democracy Without Borders? Global Challenges to Liberal Democracy (2008) and of Rousseau's State of Nature(1979). His essays and reviews on a wide range of international and public policy issues have appeared in numerous books and journals, and he has coedited with Larry Diamond more than two dozen books on contemporary issues relating to democracy in the Journal of Democracy book series.Key HighlightsIntroduction - 0:48Democratic Consensus - 2:32Liberalism and Democracy - 10:26Democratic Threats - 20:58Governance - 28:51Key Links"Why Ukraine Is Critical to Rebuilding Our Democratic Consensus" in the Journal of Democracy by Marc Plattner"Democracy Embattled" in the Journal of Democracy by Marc Plattner"Liberalism and Democracy: Can't Have One Without the Other" in Foreign Affairs by Marc PlattnerAdditional InformationThe Democracy Group listener surveyDemocracy Paradox PodcastMore shows from The Democracy Group

On January, 2002, brother-in-laws Tommy Robbins and Larry Diamond set out on a plane ride over the Colorado Rockies and neither neither was expecting a sudden turn of events. They flew up over jagged cliffs, soaring high above the snow-capped peaks that seemed to stretch on forever. Suddenly they felt a sudden downward push as the cold air currents drove them lower and lower. Pilot Justin Kirkbride valiantly tried to get them back up, but it was too late - the Cessna crash landed in the middle of a barren landscape, surrounded by nothing but snow and sky. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kaycee-mcintosh/support

Amb. Michael McFaul with Larry Diamond | Momentous events in Russia and Ukraine: What do they mean?

I think we have a more complex notion of what democracy is. - Marc PlattnerAccess Bonus Episodes on PatreonMake a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox.A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.Marc Plattner is the founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy and the founding codirector of the National Endowment for Democracy's International Forum for Democratic Studies. Until 2016, he also served as NED's vice president for research and studies, and from 1984 to 1989 he was NED's director of program.  He is the author of Democracy Without Borders? Global Challenges to Liberal Democracy (2008) and of Rousseau's State of Nature(1979). His essays and reviews on a wide range of international and public policy issues have appeared in numerous books and journals, and he has coedited with Larry Diamond more than two dozen books on contemporary issues relating to democracy in the Journal of Democracy book series.Key HighlightsIntroduction - 0:48Democratic Consensus - 2:32Liberalism and Democracy - 10:26Democratic Threats - 20:58Governance - 28:51Key Links"Why Ukraine Is Critical to Rebuilding Our Democratic Consensus" in the Journal of Democracy by Marc Plattner"Democracy Embattled" in the Journal of Democracy by Marc Plattner"Liberalism and Democracy: Can't Have One Without the Other" in Foreign Affairs by Marc PlattnerDemocracy Paradox PodcastAnne Applebaum on Autocracy, IncLarry Diamond on Supporting Democracy in the World and at HomeMore Episodes from the PodcastMore InformationDemocracy GroupApes of the State created all MusicEmail the show at jkempf@democracyparadox.comFollow on Twitter @DemParadox, Facebook, Instagram @democracyparadoxpodcast100 Books on DemocracySupport the show

Join BigTentUSAWe welcome Professor Larry Diamond, in conversation, with Anne Wedner. Diamond will discuss the the Autocrat's 12-step playbook and outline measures we need to take to preserve and advance democracy.Ill Winds by Larry DiamondRead Larry Diamond's BigTent Post This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bigtentnews.substack.com

In this second episode of Martin Wolf's series, the renowned FT columnist and economist speaks to Larry Diamond, a leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies and a senior fellow in global democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Drawing on arguments in Martin's latest book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, they discuss what's behind a deepening global ‘democratic recession'.LinksMartin Wolf: in defence of democratic capitalismFor Martin's FT columns click hereFor the FT review of Martin's book click here This episode is presented by Martin Wolf. The producer is Laurence Knight. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa and the sound engineer is Breen Turner. The FT's global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.Clips: BBC, CNN, WIONRead a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Larry Diamond, a senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, FSI, and professor of political science and sociology at Stanford shares his view on the state of democracy and suggests approaches to sustain and promote democratic values in a changing world. Larry Diamond is known as an American political sociologist and leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies. He has also edited or coedited more than fifty books on democratic development around the world. Mr. Diamond invents the term “Democratic Recession”. The host, Gita Wirjawan, is an Indonesian entrepreneur, educator, and currently a visiting scholar at APARC, Stanford. Recorded on May 11th, 2023 at Stanford University. ----------------- Episode Notes: https://endgame.id/eps142notes ----------------- SGPP Indonesia Master of Public Policy: admissions@sgpp.ac.id https://admissions.sgpp.ac.id https://wa.me/628111522504 Other "Endgame" episode playlists: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Visit and subscribe: https://youtube.com/@SGPPIndonesia https://www.youtube.com/@VisinemaPict...

Tearsheet hosted its first LinkedIn Live session. Joining me on the show is Zip co-founder and CEO, Larry Diamond. Ten years ago, Zip was founded in Australia as a buy now, pay later service, embedding a quick and easy consumer loan in a retailer's checkout flow. Larry recently moved to the US to focus on Zip's expansion stateside. In this LinkedIn Live session, we discuss: *Zip's US opportunity *What the US BNPL market can learn from the more mature Australian market *Consumer protections and rising calls for regulation *How Zip differentiates *Levers in the business *Where Zip is headed next If you'd like to attend future LinkedIn Live sessions, follow me and Tearsheet on LinkedIn.

Larry is the Co-Founder of ZIP, the leading global Buy Now, Pay Later company that simplifies how people pay that has created a community of over 7 million active customers globally and 51,000 retailers worldwide who trust them as their payment choice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

China Expert Minxin Pei and Global Democracy Expert Larry Diamond discuss Autocracies and Resistance with Larry Mantle.

The state of American democracy in the shadow of January 6th | Nearly two years on, the January 6th insurrection is still lingering over Washington, DC like a dark cloud. The events leading up to the Capitol insurrection, as well as the attack itself, have signaled a major threat to American democracy. Will the United States be able to recover fully from these events, or is the damage irreparable? Does the presidency of Joe Biden mean that healing can take place, or will future political leaders seek to insight violence whenever their platform is threatened?  Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of several books, including Ill Winds and The Spirit of Democracy. In this episode of How to Fix Democracy, he joins host Andrew Keen to discuss the state of democracy in the United States post-January 6th. Take a listen!

As 2022 comes to a close, Francis Fukuyama sits down with his CDDRL colleague and democracy expert Larry Diamond for a wide-ranging conversation about the state of global democracy and the year's dramatic political developments in China, Iran, and the United States.Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He is also a professor by courtesy of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford. His research focuses on democratic trends and conditions around the world and on policies and reforms to defend and advance democracy. His latest edited book (with Orville Schell), China's Influence and American Interests (Hoover Press, 2019), urges a posture of constructive vigilance toward China's global projection of “sharp power,” which it sees as a rising threat to democratic norms and institutions. He offers a massive open online course (MOOC) on Comparative Democratic Development through the edX platform and is now writing a textbook to accompany it.Diamond's book, Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency, analyzes the challenges confronting liberal democracy in the United States and around the world at this potential “hinge in history,” and offers an agenda for strengthening and defending democracy at home and abroad. A paperback edition with a new preface was released by Penguin in April 2020. His other books include: In Search of Democracy (2016), The Spirit of Democracy (2008), Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (1999),  Promoting Democracy in the 1990s (1995), and Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria (1989). He has also edited or coedited more than forty books on democratic development around the world, most recently, Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years.

It's been a good few weeks for the president, capped off by a Democratic win in the Georgia Senate race, and WNBA star Brittney Griner's release from a Russian prison. Plus, protests, crackdowns and change in China and Iran. Guests: Axios' Mike Allen and Stanford University's Larry Diamond. Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Alexandra Botti, Robin Linn, Fonda Mwangi and Ben O'Brien. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Go Deeper: How the Biden admin says Brittney Griner's release happened Rep. Andy Biggs challenges McCarthy for speaker Iran executes man arrested in Tehran demonstrations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm joined by Larry Diamond for a conversation on how our social media ecosystem amplifies extremist movements and empowers authoritarian regimes such as China, Iran and Russia. We discuss how our democracy at home relates to the fight for freedom abroad, the perverse incentives of today's social media ecosystem, Twitter's fate, and how Russia's war against Ukraine relates to Taiwan.Larry Diamond is one of the foremost experts on the study of democracy. He is a Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Larry is also a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, where he leads its programs on China's Global Sharp Power and on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region. He is the co-founding editor of the Journal on Democracy and the author of numerous books, the most recent being "China's Influence and American Interests: Promoting Constructive Vigilance." This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit renewdemocracy.substack.com

The world can't wait for us to counter Russian and Chinese disinformation, support democratic struggles abroad, help to stabilize and improve democratic institutions, forge partnerships between our democratic organizations and actors and parties and theirs, and otherwise promote democracy around the world. The world can't wait for us to do that.Larry DiamondBecome a Patron!Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox.A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.Larry Diamond is widely considered the leading scholar of democracy. He is a professor at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was a co-founder of the Journal of Democracy with Marc Plattner in 1990. His influence on the thought and practice of democracy is incalculable. His recent article in Foreign Affairs is titled "All Democracy is Global."Key HighlightsIntroduction - 0:49Importance of Democracy - 2:34Strategies to Promote Democracy - 11:30American Policies - 19:59Using Democracy's Strengths - 30:32Key LinksIll Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency by Larry DiamondFollow Larry Diamond on Twitter @LarryDiamondCheck out Larry Diamond's Greatest Hits at the Journal of Democracy"All Democracy is Global" by Larry DiamondDemocracy Paradox PodcastMichael McFaul and Robert Person on Putin, Russia, and the War in UkraineMoisés Naím on the New Dynamics of Political PowerMore Episodes from the PodcastMore InformationDemocracy GroupApes of the State created all MusicEmail the show at jkempf@democracyparadox.comFollow on Twitter @DemParadox, Facebook, Instagram @democracyparadoxpodcast100 Books on DemocracyDemocracy Paradox is part of the Amazon Affiliates Program and earns commissions on items purchased from links to the Amazon website. All links are to recommended books discussed in the podcast or referenced in the blog.Buzzsprout — Easiest Way to Start a PodcastStart podcasting today. It's the easiest way to start, grow, and monetize your podcast.Brand AllBetterWe discuss ideas, concepts, and prior conditions concerning Substance Use Disorder,...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Ruth Ben Ghiat and Larry Diamond: Strongmen - How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall

Consumers are currently driving healthcare. In this episode, Larry Diamond, CEO of Mitesco and the Good Clinic, talks about how they are helping the healthcare system evolve so that consumers have a better experience and outcomes with their health. Larry explains how they view it as a consumer product, bringing their needs to the center instead of what governments or insurance companies typically ask for. This means personalized, complete care that is convenient and reasonably priced. He exemplifies how the Good Clinic focuses on same-day or next-day appointments that are 37 minutes on average. He talks about referrals and community-based marketing as a means to let the right customers find them. He also discusses the benefits of the Good Clinic's nurse-practitioner-led care and how primary care can become a better business. Tune in to this episode to learn how the customer has the power to turn healthcare more proactive! Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

Does democracy lead to economic prosperity and growth? This question dates back to Plato and Aristotle's debate regarding which form of government brings more political and economic gains to society. While the United States has sought to promote democracy and liberal values abroad for decades with a belief that democracy will lead to economic prosperity, many countries around the world do not agree with that. Should democracy or economic prosperity be the measurement of success for countries? Which should come first in a country's priority list, especially developing countries? Join us to hear the answer from our distinguished speakers, Professor Danny Quah, Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics and Dean at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, and Dr. Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University----This Virtual Briefing Series event was originally hosted on  October 28th, 2021.Music by Joseph McDade.Upcoming events: https://network2020.org/upcoming-events/Follow us at:Twitter: @Network2020LinkedIn: Network 20/20Facebook: @network2020Instagram: @network_2020Follow us at:Network2020.orgTwitter: @Network2020LinkedIn: Network 20/20Facebook: @network2020Instagram: @network_2020

In this episode, Alex starts by discussing how Joe Manchin has once again dampened Biden's domestic hopes. Then he goes over a shocking interview on CNN between Jake Tapper and John Bolton. In the interview, Bolton said the quiet part out loud, directly bragging that he had been involved in several coups. Alex discusses how this is atrocious for the U.S.'s image abroad and will feed Russian propaganda. “It's damaging to our efforts to advance and support democracy,” Stanford University-Hoover Institution scholar Larry Diamond said. “We have enough trouble already countering Russian and Chinese propaganda.” Finally, Alex discusses the case of Brittney Griner, the WNBA player who has been detained in Russia for apparently having a marijuana vape pen. She could face a ten-year prison sentence because marijuana is criminalized in Russia. Many think that she is a high-profile hostage and Putin intends to push for a prisoner swap. First, Alex is irritated about how the media and public figures in the United States are covering this issue. Many claim the Biden administration is neglecting her because she is a woman. This is wrong, this is a highly complex situation and Russia should be blamed not Biden. Second, Alex discusses that Viktor Bout, the guy who would likely be part of the prisoner exchange, is an atrocious arms dealer with the blood of thousands of people on his hands. This is a complex scenario with no great solution. 

As one of the world's leading spokespersons for democracy, Larry Diamond of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, the Journal of Democracy and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), reflects on the threats to global democracy and his proposals for reinstating and reinforcing the health of our own democracy in the United States.

Thanks for listening to Afrofiles! In this episode, Dr. Miles Tendi, professor of Politics and African Studies at Oxford University, talks with Luke St. Pierre and Sarah Daly about recent coups in north and west Africa. Find Miles on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MilesTendi and check out his most recent book, The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe: Solomon Mujuru, the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker (2020) See references discussed in the interview: · Ruth First, Barrel of a Gun: Political Power in Africa and the Coup d'État(1970) https://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/term/cluster/barrel-gun · The famous picture of Condé on his couch during the coup, when he was detained in his office: https://news365.co.ke/2021/09/06/president-conde/ · Kevin Koehler and Holger Albrecht, “Revolutions and the Military: Endgame Coups, Instability, and Prospects for Democracy,” Armed Forces and Society (November 4, 2019). · Holger Albrecht, Kevin Koehler, and Austin Shutz, “Coup Agency and Prospects for Democracy,” International Studies Quarterly 65, no. 4 (December 2021). · Samuel Decalo, Coups & Army Rule in Africa, 1990, https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Samuel-Decalo/Coups-and-Army-Rule-in-Africa--Motivations-and-Constraints-Second-Edition/12827694 · Elizabeth Schmidt, Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror (2013); and Foreign Intervention in Africa After the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror (2018); https://www.loyola.edu/academics/history/faculty/schmidt · Boubacar N'Diaye, various publications, https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Boubacar-NDiaye-2002747900 · Larry Diamond, “Democratic Regression in Comparative Perspective: Scope, Methods, and Causes,” Democratization 28, no. 1 (2021), https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2020.1807517 This episode was produced by Luke St. Pierre and Sarah Daly, with help from Ed Hendrickson. This episode was edited by Sarah, which explains any and all listening woes.

Kathryn Stoner (Deputy Director at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University) and Minxin Pei (Chinese-American political scientist and expert on governance in China, U.S.-Asia relations) spoke with Stanford University's Larry Diamond about China and Russia's alliance of autocracies, particularly through the lens of Russia's war on Ukraine and each nation's state-run media.

Note: This is an encore edition of Reader's Corner. The original aired in November 2020.

Episode #17     In today's episode, Megan and Nadia put their colleague Larry Diamond and his wife, Kay Lynne, in the hot seat!  Larry has been a coach for the Fasting Method Program since 2018 and he and his wife have lost almost 200 lbs combined! They share how they lost all that weight, how they've kept it off, and how they are helping TFM clients and the Community in their own journeys.  Tune in to hear about the numerous health issues they have resolved. Learn More About Our Community: https://www.thefastingmethod.com Join our FREE Facebook Group: https://bit.ly/TFMNetwork Watch Us On YouTube: https://bit.ly/TFMYouTube Follow Us on Instagram: @fastingmethod