Author: Frances Hagopian | Journal of Democracy

Frances Hagopian is Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer in government at Harvard University, and author of Reorganizing Representation in Latin America (forthcoming).

July 2016, Volume 27, Issue 3

Delegative Democracy Revisited: Brazil’s Accountability Paradox

Frances Hagopian

Latin America’s largest country has managed vastly to enlarge the share of its citizens who can take part in politics and need no longer live in poverty, and has robust horizontal accountability to boot. Vertical accountability, however, has suffered.

July 2004, Volume 15, Issue 3

What Makes Democracies Collapse?

Frances Hagopian

A review of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy by Nancy Bermeo.

Assessing the Quality of Democracy

Larry Diamond
Leonardo Morlino

"An important milestone in the study of democratic quality, and an excellent resource for both scholarly researchers and graduate courses on comparative democracy and democratization."—Daunis Auerson, Political Studies Review