Mason's Graduate Political Science Society Announces a Lecture by Larry Diamond

Diamond to talk about the “sharp acceleration of the breakdown of democracies.”


by College Staff

On Tuesday, March 23, Dr. Larry Diamond, professor of Sociology and Political Science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, will speak at George Mason University’s Johnson Center Cinema at 3 p.m.

Diamond, who is also a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where he directs the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, is expected to discuss the “sharp acceleration in the number of breakdowns of democracies."

The founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy, Hoover also serves as senior consultant (and previously was co-director) at the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy.