Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Why Is Democracy Performing So Poorly? -- 2 The Weight of Geopolitics -- 3 Crisis and Transition, but Not Decline -- 4 The Myth of Democratic Recession -- 5 Democracy Aid at 25: Time to Choose -- 6 Facing Up to the Democratic Recession -- About the Authors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.