Author: Alejandro Toledo | Journal of Democracy

Alejandro Toledo served as president of Peru from 2001 to 2006. He is currently president of the Global Center for Development and Democracy, and has held posts as a fellow or visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.

October 2010, Volume 21, Issue 4

Latin America: Democracy with Development

Alejandro Toledo

Latin America’s hard-won democratic gains must be defended by addressing he economic disparities fueling a drift toward populism.

Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy

Marc F. Plattner
Larry Diamond
Francis Fukuyama

This book addresses such broad issues as whether democracy promotes inequality, the socioeconomic factors that drive democratic failure, and the basic choices that societies must make as they decide how to deal with inequality.