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Title: Larry Jay Diamond clippings collection
Date (inclusive): 1978-2004
Collection Number: 2002C79
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
11 manuscript boxes
(4.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Relates to political, social and economic conditions in Nigeria.
source:
Diamond, Larry Jay
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2002.
[Identification of item], Larry Jay Diamond clippings collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where
he directs the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy
and serves as senior consultant at the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy.
With Abbas Milani, he coordinates the Hoover Institution Project on Democracy in Iran. His research focuses on comparative
trends in the stability of democracy in developing countries and post communist states and on US foreign policy. At Stanford
University, he is a professor by courtesy of political science and sociology.
Diamond has edited or co-edited more than 30 books on democracy, including the recent titles
How People View Democracy, How East Asians View Democracy, Latin America's Struggle for Democracy, Political Change in China:
Comparisons with Taiwan, and Assessing the Quality of Democracy
. Among his other published works are,
Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (1999),
Promoting Democracy in the 1990s (1995), and
Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria (1989).
Source: http://www.stanford.edu/~ldiamond/
Scope and Content of Collection
Acquired in 2002, the Larry Jay Diamond collection in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives includes clippings, correspondence,
writings, conference proceedings, and printed matter relating to political, social and economic conditions before, during,
and after Presidential elections in Nigeria in 1983.
Research materials in the papers pertain to Diamond's book
Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria (1989). There are draft chapters of the book on the floppy disks.
The papers include materials relating to his teaching activities as a Fulbright visiting lecturer at Bayero University Kano
(BUK), Nigeria, from 1982 to 1983, as well as conference proceedings of National United Power Convention (NUPC) in Baghdad
in 2004.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Nigeria
Diamond, Larry Jay