Is Democracy in Decline?
Is Democracy in Decline?
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民主正在衰落吗？
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2015
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Marc F. Plattner
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Marc F. Plattner
自1990年1月创刊以来，《民主杂志》发表了1000多篇文章，探讨了民主运作和民主运动斗争的各个方面。但我们特别关注跟踪世界各地民主的进步和挫折。25年来，我们一直在“测量”民主的温度。自1998年以来，我们每年都发表一篇文章，总结自由之家对世界自由的调查，我们还精选了许多其他分析民主全球轨迹的文章，从塞缪尔·P·亨廷顿1991年的经典文章开始，介绍了民主化“第三波”的概念。因此，我们把这一主题作为我们二十五周年纪念问题的中心主题，不应感到意外。然而，有些人可能会对我们封面上的标题感到惊讶-“民主正在衰落吗？"它忠实地反映了我们向撰稿人提出问题的方式。对于一本毫不掩饰地支持民主的杂志来说，这显然不是一个庆祝历史里程碑的主题。然而，随着2015年的临近，这似乎是每个人都在问的问题，我们决定对此进行彻底的研究。追踪多年来在《日刊》上发表的观点和意见（特别是在其五周年纪念日），可以看出自1990年以来对民主状况的评价和看法是如何演变的。拉里·戴蒙德和我为创刊号撰写的编辑介绍是由民主正在经历“世界范围内的显著复兴”的观点所激发的，但也有一种担忧，
Since the publication of its inaugural issue in January 1990, the Journal of Democracy has published well over a thousand articles, exploring all aspects of the workings of democracy and the struggles of democratic movements. But we have been especially concerned with tracking democracy’s advances and setbacks around the world. For 25 years, we have been “taking the temperature” of democracy. Since 1998, we have published annually an article summarizing Freedom House’s survey of Freedom in the World, and we have featured numerous other essays analyzing democracy’s global trajectory, beginning with Samuel P. Huntington’s classic 1991 article introducing the concept of the “third wave” of democratization. So it should not be unexpected that we turn to this subject as the central theme of our twenty-fifth anniversary issue. Some may be surprised, however, by the headline on our cover—“Is Democracy in Decline?”—which faithfully reflects the way in which we posed the question to our contributors. For a journal that is unabashedly in favor of democracy, this obviously is not the kind of celebratory theme that might be preferred for marking a historic milestone. Yet this seemed to be the question that everyone was asking as 2015 approached, and we decided that it deserved a thorough examination. Tracing the viewpoints and opinions expressed over the years in the Journal (especially on its five-year anniversaries) suggests how evaluations of and sentiments about the state of democracy have evolved since 1990. The editors’ introduction that Larry Diamond and I wrote for the inaugural issue was animated by the view that democracy was experiencing a “remarkable worldwide resurgence,” but also by a concern that