Democracy for the Long Haul

A review of Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom by Condoleezza Rice.

Democracy promotion is a cause-oriented mission, but a good deal of hard-headed realism goes into program planning and work.

Faced with the rise of extreme and illiberal political players, mainstream parties have employed strategies of banning, marginalization, and cooptation. Yet to truly heal the underlying democratic ailment, establishment parties…