symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Kanchan Chandra, Professor, Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University

• AUTHORITARIAN ELEMENTS IN DEMOCRACY
  Kanchan Chandra, Professor, Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University

• THE AUTHORITARIAN TEMPTATION
  Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

• THE AUTHORITARIANISM OF DONALD TRUMP
  Scott Malcomson, International Security Fellow, New America Foundation, New York

• WHAT IT MEANS TO RULE LIKE PUTIN
  Henry Hale, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, DC

• THE AGE OF AUTHORITARIANISM AND THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
  Manu Bhagavan, Professor of History and Human Rights, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York

• MODI'S COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM
  Rajeev Deshpande, Chief of National Bureau, 'The Times of India', Delhi

• KARUNANIDHI AND TAMIL POLITICS
  Andrew Wyatt, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Bristol, and C. Manikandan, independent scholar , Salem, Tamil Nadu

• LIVING UNDER AMMA
  John Harriss, Professor, School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia

• MORAL TRANSCENDENCE? THE GURU IN DEMOCRACY
  Aya Ikegame, Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo

• THE CULT OF THE BOSS
  Lucia Michelutti, Department of Anthropology, University College London

• INDIA'S DEMOCRATIC MARKETPLACE FOR CRIMINALITY
  Milan Vaishnav, Senior Fellow, South Asia, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC

• AFSPA: THE DARKER SIDE OF INDIAN DEMOCRACY
  Sanjib Baruah, Professor of Political Studies, Bard College, New York

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Sudhir Chandra and Sushila Ravindranath

• COMMENT
  Crime and Punishment in Syria 
  Vithal Rajan, writer and playwright, Hyderabad

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