Larry Jay Diamond clippings collection, 1978-2004

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Summary

Creators:
Diamond, Larry Jay
Abstract:
Relates to political, social and economic conditions in Nigeria.
Extent:
11 manuscript boxes (4.4 Linear Feet)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Larry Jay Diamond clippings collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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/

Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2002.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Names:
Diamond, Larry Jay
Places:
Nigeria

Access and use

Restrictions:

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.

Terms of access:

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Larry Jay Diamond clippings collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
(650) 723-3563
hooverarchives@stanford.edu
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