Democratization in the Muslim World Changing Patterns of Authority And Power

Democratization in the Muslim World examines in detail the role that Political Islam plays in processes of democratisation in the Muslim world. Deliberately moving away from grand culturally based explanations and towards analysing the political processes it facilitates the collective learning of democratic ways of solving the practical problems of those polities. This book represents an important contribution to the debate on democratization and political Islam that emphasises the synergetic effects and global reach of both Islamist and democratic politics. It comes to terms with the problematic relationship between Islam and democracy in the uncertain post-Cold War, post-9/11 world order by highlighting the malleability of Islamic discourses and of its institutional resources, as well as the diversity of the political strategies of incumbent regimes to remain in power. Instead of generating an artificial framework that aggregates the putative causes of democratization in the Muslim world, the book assesses the explanatory power of each relevant factor from the ground up, through an analysis of the tactical and strategic choices that political players make in different socio-historical contexts. to this end, it combines key theoretical issues and country-specific studies of some of the most relevant Muslim polities of the post-Cold War and post9/11 era. This book was previously published as a special issue of Democratization.Volpi, Frederic is the author of 'Democratization in the Muslim World Changing Patterns of Authority And Power', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415411479 and ISBN 0415411475.