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    Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Issue DEMOCRAC Y. mary 205, Volume 26, Number? $13.00 Is Democracy in Decline? Francis Fukuyama ® Robert Kagan Marc F, Plattner = Larry Diamond = Thomas Carothers Philippe C. Schmitter = Steven Levitsky & Lucan Way Alfred Stepan © Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Scott Mainwaring & Anibal Pérez-Lifién E. Gyimah-Boadi ® Tarek Masoud The Authoritarian Resurgence: China’s Challenge Andrew J. Nathan Michnik’s Homage to Havel Carl Gershman Russia: Imperialism and Decay Lilia Shevtsova THE MYTH OF DEMOCRATIC RECESSION, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way Steven Levitsky is professor of government at Harvard University Lucan Way is associate professor of political science at the Univer sity of Toronto. They are coauthors of Competitive Authorit Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War (2010). A\ near consensus has emerged that the world has fallen into x “demo- cratic recession.” Leading observers and democracy advocates charac terize the last decade as a period of democratic “rollback,” “eresion,” oF “dectine,"' in which new democracies have fallen vitimn to a "powerful suthoritarin undertow.” In an article entitled “The Great Dersoeracy “Meltdown,” for example, Joshva Kurlantzick claims that global freedom has “plummeted.”* Another observer suggests that “we might infact be seeing the beginning of the end for democracy."* ‘The gloomy mood is made manifest in Freedom House's yearly re- ports in the Journal of Democracy. Summarizing Freedom House's nual survey of freedom, Arch Paddington warned in 2006 of a growing “pushback against democracy,”® characterized 2007 and 2008 as years of democratic “decline," claimed that the democratic erosion had “ac-

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