Temptations of Power: Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East. By Shadi Hamid. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-19931405-8
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the “end of history.” The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won. But what of ‘illiberal’ democracy – the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedom, and other norms...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
IIUM Press
2017
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/57468/1/57468_Temptations%20of%20Power.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/57468/ http://journals.iium.edu.my/intdiscourse/index.php/islam/article/view/1001/694 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|