Comments on Nationalism and Democracy

An “Islamic Reformation” is not a necessary condition for the emergence of democracy in the Muslim world; what is most needed is a political reformation.

The country’s hold on electoral democracy is firm, but its claim still to be a liberal democracy is increasingly dubious.

Takis Pappas argues that certain nativist parties of the populist right should be counted as liberal-democratic. This is a mistake; these parties do not truly merit that name.