What arabs think

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 131-138

  Braizat, Fares ^a  

^a Qatar University   (Qatar)

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EID: 77958601931     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: 10863214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2010.0015     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Larry Diamond, "Why Are There No Arab Democracies?" Journal of Democracy 21 (January 2010): 93.
2. For examples of these works, see David Pryce-Jones, The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs (New York: Harper and Row, 1989);
3. Daniel Pipes, "Dealing with Middle Eastern Conspiracy Theories," Orbis 36, no. 1 (1992);
4. Bernard Lewis, The Political Language of Islam (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988).
5. For a critical assessment of The Political Language of Islam
6. see Mansoor Moaddel, "The Study of Islamic Culture and Politics: An Overview and Assessment," Annual Review of Sociology 28 (August 2002): 359-86;
7. Fred Halliday, Islam and the Myth of Confrontation: Religion and Politics in the Middle East (New York: I.B.Tauris, 1999), 204-6.
8. Bernard Lewis, "Islamic Concepts of Revolution," in P.J. Vatikiotis, ed., Revolution in the Middle East and Other Case Studies (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1972), 30-40, 33.
9. Amaney Jamal and Mark Tessler, "The Democracy Barometers: Attitudes in the Arab World," Journal of Democracy 19 (January 2008): 97-110.
10. Diamond, "Why Are There No Arab Democracies?" 94.
11. Fares Braizat, "Muslims and Democracy: An Empirical Critique of Fukuyama's Culturalist Approach," International Journal of Comparative Sociology 43 (October 2002): 224-28;
12. Ronald Inglehart, ed., Islam, Gender, Culture, and Democracy: Findings from the World Values Survey and the European Values Survey (Willowdale, Ont.: de Sitter, 2004).
13. For example, Jordan slipped into the Not Free category;
14. see www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=505.
15. Fares Braizat, "Democracy in Jordan 2008," Center for Strategic Studies (CSS), University of Jordan, December 2008, 3; available at www.css-jordan.org/UploadPolling/271.doc.
16. Arab Reform Initiative, "Trends in Arab Public Opinion towards Reform," 8 July 2009, 11-15; available at http://arab-reform.net/spip.php? article2219.
17. Braizat, "Democracy in Jordan 2008," 5, Table 3; Mohammad Al Masri, "Democracy in Jordan 2009," CSS, University of Jordan, December 2009, 6, Chart 3.
18. The percentages presented here exclude those who did not state an opinion (nearly 15 percent).
19. For details about Arab public opinion on these issues, see Mustafa Hamarneh et al., Revisiting the Arab Street: Research from Within (Amman: Center for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan, 2005).