Larry Diamond   Hoover Institution

Larry Diamond is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy (in its twelfth year of publication). He is also co-director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy and professor by courtesy of political science and sociology at Stanford. Diamond is the author of Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation, Promoting Democracy in the 1990s, and Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria. His recent edited books include: Political Parties and Democracy (with Richard Gunther), Democracy after Communism and The Global Divergence of Democracies (with Marc F. Plattner), Consolidating Democracy in Korea (with Byung-Kook Kim), Institutional Reform and Democratic Consolidation in Korea (with Doh Shin), and Elections and Democracy in Greater China (with Ramon Myers). Among his other 20 edited books are the series Democracy in Developing Countries, with Juan Linz and Seymour Martin Lipset; The Self-Restraining State: Power and Accountability in New Democracies, with Andreas Schedler and Marc F.Plattner; and Democratization in Africa and Democracy in East Asia, with Marc F. Plattner. Currently he is writing a book with Yun-han Chu on democratic consolidation in Taiwan, in comparative perspective. Diamond is a consultant to the US Agency for International Development on democracy and governance programs and has consulted for other private and governmental organizations on global democratic trends and opportunities.