Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation - Hardcover

"[A] systematic account of the political realities that make democracy promotion so challenging. Diamond... marshals an impressive array of cross-cultural social-science evidence." -- Charles Lane, Weekly Standard

"Offers a realistic description of the political discontents of our time and how these discontents are reduced... by the development of democratic practice." -- Washington Times

"Larry Diamond has written the authoritative book on the democratic experience -- lucid and discriminating in its theoretical grasp, and masterful in its presentation of evidence." -- Gabriel A. Almond, Stanford University