Author: Michael Robbins | Journal of Democracy

Michael Robbins is director of the Arab Barometer, senior researcher in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, and research fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan.

October 2015, Volume 26, Issue 4

After the Arab Spring: People Still Want Democracy

Michael Robbins

Data from the Arab Barometer suggest that Arabs have not rejected democracy. In fact, they still by and large believe in it and want it.

October 2012, Volume 23, Issue 4

New Findings on Arabs and Democracy

Mark Tessler
Amaney Jamal
Michael Robbins

The second wave of the Arab Barometer reveals strong and steady support for democracy in the Arab World but a deficit in democratic culture.

Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World

Marc F. Plattner
Larry Diamond

The uprisings that swept the Arab world beginning in 2010 toppled four entrenched rulers and seemed to create a political opening in a region long impervious to democratization.