Author: Robin Wright | Journal of Democracy

Robin Wright is global-affairs correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and former Middle East correspondent for the Sunday Times of London. Her books include Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam (1985) and In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade (1990).

April 1996, Volume 7, Issue 2

Islam and Liberal Democracy: Two Visions of Reformation

Robin Wright

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Islam and Democracy in the Middle East

Marc F. Plattner
Larry Diamond
Daniel Brumberg

World Religions and Democracy

Marc F. Plattner
Larry Diamond
Philip J. Costopoulos

Can religion be compatible with liberal democracy? This volume brings together insights from renowned scholars and world leaders in a provocative discussion of religions' role in the success or failure of democracy.