Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Larry Diamond, Resource Curse, Islamic Democracy

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 1020E
• Professor: Nigmendra Narain

Document Summary

Larry diamond, why are there no arab democracies? , journal of democracy, vol. Why does diamond find this explanation problematic: problematic because of the differences between muslim-majority states and other arab. It"s a democracy gap it is more prevalent in the arab states instead of muslim states. It is more of an arab gap than it is a muslim gap countries: says there is a freedom gap within the muslim countries. Nothing in the political traditions of the arab world which are the political traditions of islam. Which might make familiar or indeed intelligible the organizing ideas of constitutional and representative government : diamond says that outside the arab world there are many countries with muslim political traditions that have some significant experiences with democracy. What are jamal and tessler"s findings and why might they be important: suggests that proponents of secular democracy vary little from their compatrios who back.