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The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad is a book by Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Zakaria is an Indian-born Naturalization United States journalist, author, and television host specializing in international relations....
 analyzing the variables that allow a liberal democracy
Liberal democracy

Liberal democracy is the dominant form of democracy in the 21st century. During the Cold War, liberal democracies were contrasted with the Communist People's Republics or "Popular Democracies", which claimed an alternative conception of democracy....
 to flourish and the pros and cons of the global focus on democracy
Democracy

Democracy is a form of government in which power is held directly or indirectly by citizens under a free electoral system. It is derived from the Greek language d?????at?a , "popular government" which was coined from d???? , "people" and ???t?? , "rule, strength" in the middle of the 5th-4th century BC to denote the political syst...
 as the building block of a more stable society rather than liberty
Liberty

Liberty, the freedom to act or believe without being stopped by unnecessary force, is generally considered in modern time to be a concept of political philosophy and identifies the condition in which an individual has the right to act according to his or her own free will....
. It was a best-seller in the United States and several other countries. It is being translated into 20 languages at last count.

Zakaria's thesis
Thesis

A dissertation is a document that presents the author's research and findings and is submitted in support of candidature for a degree or professional qualification....
 deals with the variables required for a stable and free democracy to be born.






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The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad is a book by Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Zakaria is an Indian-born Naturalization United States journalist, author, and television host specializing in international relations....
 analyzing the variables that allow a liberal democracy
Liberal democracy

Liberal democracy is the dominant form of democracy in the 21st century. During the Cold War, liberal democracies were contrasted with the Communist People's Republics or "Popular Democracies", which claimed an alternative conception of democracy....
 to flourish and the pros and cons of the global focus on democracy
Democracy

Democracy is a form of government in which power is held directly or indirectly by citizens under a free electoral system. It is derived from the Greek language d?????at?a , "popular government" which was coined from d???? , "people" and ???t?? , "rule, strength" in the middle of the 5th-4th century BC to denote the political syst...
 as the building block of a more stable society rather than liberty
Liberty

Liberty, the freedom to act or believe without being stopped by unnecessary force, is generally considered in modern time to be a concept of political philosophy and identifies the condition in which an individual has the right to act according to his or her own free will....
. It was a best-seller in the United States and several other countries. It is being translated into 20 languages at last count.

Zakaria's thesis
Thesis

A dissertation is a document that presents the author's research and findings and is submitted in support of candidature for a degree or professional qualification....
 deals with the variables required for a stable and free democracy to be born. In the pursuit of this, his book begins with a historical overview of western democracy and its elements, arguing that not only can a liberal democracy form from a liberalizing autocracy
Autocracy

An autocracy is a form of government in which the political power is held by a single, self-appointed ruler. The term autocrat is derived from the Greek language word 'a?t????t?? ....
 (His most prominent example of this is South Korea
South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....
), but that it is actually more likely to form and last that way than by trying to democratize the society
Society

A society is a group of humans characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals that share a distinctive culture and/or institutions....
 first and liberalize it later (For this, he makes an example of Western Europe
Western Europe

Western Europe refers to the countries in the western most half of Europe. This concept has had different meanings, political and cultural as well as geographical issues have influenced the area....
 in the early twentieth century). He then goes on to describe illiberal democracies
Illiberal democracy

An illiberal democracy is a governing system in which although fairly free elections take place, citizens are cut off from real power due to the lack of civil liberties....
, defined as "regime
Regime

The word regime refers to a set of conditions, most often of a political nature. It may also be used synonymously with "wiktionary:regimen", for example in the phrases "exercise regime" or "medical regime"....
s... that mix elections and authoritarianism," and argues that they are the result of countries that try to democratize without having a sturdy economy structured around the free-market and sound political
Politics

Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....
 institutions with checks and balances. This is then applied to America
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 to argue that the increased democratization of American society and culture
Culture

Culture is difficult to define. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions....
 is what has caused the perceived failures of the government
Government

Government is the body within any organization that has the authority to make and the power to enforce laws, regulations, or rules. Typically, the government refers to a civil government -- local, provincial, or national -- but commercial, academic, religious, or other formal organizations are also administered by governing bodies....
 and governing elites.

The Future of Freedom is published by W. W. Norton & Company Inc. (2003 ISBN 0-393-04764-4), "with a new afterword," "bibliographical references," and "index" in 2004 (ISBN 0-393-04764-4).

See also

  • The Post-American World
    The Post-American World

    The Post-American World is a book by Indian American journalist Fareed Zakaria. The book was published in May 2008....
     by Fareed Zakaria


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