Democratic Transition in the Muslim World

A Global Perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID23207818
AuthorsAlfred C Stepan
EditorsAlfred Stepan
Year2018
Publication date2018-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDemocratic Transition in the Muslim World (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherColumbia University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7312/step18430
OpenAlexW3200474560
Open LibraryOL35821794M
ISBN9780231545419
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Contributors to this book are particularly interested in expanding our understanding of what helps, or hurts, successful democratic transition attempts in countries with large Muslim populations. Crafting pro-democratic coalitions among secularists and Islamists presents a special obstacle that must be addressed by theorists and practitioners. The argument throughout the book is that such coalitions will not happen if potentially democratic secularists are part of what Al Stepan terms the authoritarian regime's "constituency of coercion" because they (the secularists) are afraid that free elections will be won by Islamists who threaten them even more than the existing secular authoritarian regime. Tunisia allows us to do analysis on this topic by comparing two "least similar" recent case outcomes: democratic success in Tunisia and democratic failure in Egypt. Tunisia also allows us to do an analysis of four "most similar" case outcomes by comparing the successful democratic transitions in Tunisia, Indonesia, Senegal, and the country with the second or third largest Muslim population in the world, India. Did these countries face some common challenges concerning democratization? Did all four of these successful cases in fact use some common policies that while democratic, had not normally been used in transitions in countries without significant numbers of Muslims? If so, did these policies help the transitions in Tunisia, Indonesia, Senegal and India? If they did, we should incorporate them in some way into our comparative theories about successful democratic transitions

Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Ideology · Islam · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Transition (genetics) · Education and Islamic Studies · Global History, Politics, and Ideology · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Islam and politics · Islamic countries · politics and government

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