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Is Democracy for Everyone?
“Over the last 30 years we’ve gone from a quarter of the world’s states being democracies to about 60 percent. Several of them are Muslim-majority states like Indonesia, Senegal.”
Larry Diamond
OverviewThe number of democratic states around the world has been steadily climbing over the last few decades, including countries that were previously deemed unlikely candidates for achieving democratic transitions: former communist states in Eastern Europe, Muslim-majority countries such as Indonesia, or poor African countries like Mali. In recent years, this optimistic trend has seen some serious reversals: Russia, Venezuela, and Nigeria to name a few. In the past, the key question of democratic development was whether the whole world could one day be democratic. Today we know that, in principle, the answer is yes. But a more consequential question arises: How can countries that became democracies stay democratic? Additional Resources
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