TY - GEN T1 - Democratic transition in the Muslim world : a global perspective T2 - Religion, culture, and public life. A2 - Stepan, Alfred C. LA - English PP - New York PB - Columbia University Press YR - 2018 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1037351552 AB - 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 OP - 254 CN - JQ1852.A91 D447 2018eb SN - 9780231545419 SN - 023154541X SN - 9780231184304 SN - 0231184301 SN - 9780231184311 SN - 023118431X KW - Democratization : Islamic countries. KW - Democracy : Islamic countries. KW - Islam and politics : Islamic countries. KW - Islamic countries : Politics and government : 21st century. KW - Démocratisation : Pays musulmans. KW - RELIGION : Islam : General. KW - Democracy KW - Democratization KW - Islam and politics KW - Politics and government KW - Islamic countries KW - 2000-2099 ER -