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    Deepening democracy through diversity: Improving cooperation with India and non-Western democracies

    Jaishankar, Dhruva | February 2019
    Abstract
    The policy literature on democracy often overlooks a number of factors that have important implications for democracy’s future. First, it frequently exaggerates the decline of democracy globally, often by conflating reverses in liberalism with reversals in democracy. Second, it continues to imply ownership of democracy by the Western world when in fact over two-thirds of those living under democratic systems today are in non-Western and developing countries. Third, it often fails to recognize important differences between democracies, especially concerning their attitudes toward identity. There are significant differences in particular between nation-states, immigrant-heavy states, and post-colonial states. At the same time, all democracies today face similar challenges that include four “i’s”: identity, inequality, information, and interference. Working to address these challenges at a global level will require recognizing the diversity of democratic architectures and ensuring greater cooperation with democracies in the developing world, both in protecting democratic institutions at home and in bolstering cooperation in third countries.
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    Jaishankar, Dhruva. 2019. Deepening democracy through diversity: Improving cooperation with India and non-Western democracies. © Brookings India. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9779.
    Keywords
    Governance
    Corporate Governance Reform
    Governance Approach
    Governance Quality
    Public Sector Projects
    Public Sector Reform
    Political Leadership
    Political Power
    Institutional Framework
    Government
    Government accounting
    Government
    Institutional Framework
    Public Administration
    Business Ethics
    Political Leadership
    Public enterprises
    Public finance
    Government
    Political obligation
    Public management
    Government accountability
    Transparency in government
    Political ethics
    Government spending policy
    Government services
    Democracy
    Democratization
    Elections
    Local government
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