VIDEO: Explaining the Arab world's democracy deficit
cnn / Fareed Zakaria, CNN
11-Apr-2012 (one comment)

CNN's Fareed Zakaria explains why democracy won't stick in the Middle East.

 

As it happens, a Harvard economics professor, Eric Chaney, recently presented a rigorous paper that helps unravel that knot. Chaney asks why there is a "democracy deficit" in the Arab world and systematically tests various hypotheses against the data. He notes that such majority-Muslim nations as Turkey, Indonesia, Albania, Bangladesh and Malaysia have functioning democratic systems, so the mere presence of Islam or Islamic culture cannot be to blame 

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Darius Kadivar

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by Darius Kadivar on Wed Apr 11, 2012 06:22 AM PDT

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As it happens, a Harvard economics professor, Eric Chaney, recently presented a rigorous paper that helps unravel that knot. Chaney asks why there is a "democracy deficit" in the Arab world and systematically tests various hypotheses against the data. He notes that such majority-Muslim nations as Turkey, Indonesia, Albania, Bangladesh and Malaysia have functioning democratic systems, so the mere presence of Islam or Islamic culture cannot be to blame



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