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Temptations of power : Islamists and illiberal democracy in a new Middle East

Temptations of power : Islamists and illiberal democracy in a new Middle East

Book 2014

"In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously declared that we had reached "the end of history," and that liberal democracy would be the reigning ideology from now on. But Fukuyama failed to reckon with the idea of illiberal democracy. What if majorities, working through the democratic process, decide they would rather not accept gender equality and other human rights norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere have such considerations become...