Power, Performance, and Legitimacy

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ID6287560
AuthorsL Diamond (0000-0001-5471-666X, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume35
Issue2
Pages5-22
Publication date2024-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of democracy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jod.2024.a922830
OpenAlexW4393086830
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Democracies today remain in a potent and protracted recession, and they have retreated from the ideological struggle against autocracy. We can renew the world's democratic momentum through power, performance, and legitimacy. Democracies must generate economic prosperity and opportunity while containing corruption, crime, and abuses of power, to reinvigorate support for democracy across regions and generations. Liberal democracies cannot be weak or retreat; they must exert their power to safeguard free and fair elections, independent media, and the rule of law. Nowhere in the world where dictatorships repress rights, censor information, and propagate disinformation can democracy be secure. Every defense of democracy is a source of inspiration and instruction. We must get serious again about promoting the values, experiences, requirements, and institutions of democracy. And we must do so on the scale, with the scope and ease of access in many languages, required to save it

Authoritarianism · Autocracy · Democracy · Dictatorship · Disinformation · Ideology · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Liberal democracy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Prosperity · Social media · Sociology · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religion and Society Interactions

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