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Values and Perceptions of the Islamic and Middle Eastern Publics pp 105–125Cite as

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Do Islamic Orientations Influence Attitudes toward Democracy in the Arab World? Evidence from the World Values Survey in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Algeria

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Over the course of the past two decades, democratic currents have swept across much of the developing and postcommunist world. Whereas democratic regimes were a minority just a few years ago, electoral democracy is the predominant form of government among today’s nation-states and guides the lives of more than half of the world’s population (Karatnycky 2000). The Arab world, however, has been largely unaffected by this political revolution, by what Huntington has called the “Third Wave” of democratization (Huntington 1991). According to Freedom House, not a single Arab country qualifies as an electoral democracy (Karatnycky 2000; also Sivan 2000).

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    Mansoor Moaddel (Professor of Sociology) (Professor of Sociology)

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Tessler, M. (2007). Do Islamic Orientations Influence Attitudes toward Democracy in the Arab World? Evidence from the World Values Survey in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Algeria. In: Moaddel, M. (eds) Values and Perceptions of the Islamic and Middle Eastern Publics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230603332_5

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