Religiously Oriented Parties and Democratization
To the surprise of both academics and policy-makers, religion has not been relegated entirely to the private sphere; quite the contrary. Over the last few decades, religion has begun to play a significant role in public affairs and, in many cases, directly in political systems. This edited volume analyses in detail how religion and religious precepts inform the ideology, strategies and electoral behaviour of political parties. Working with an original and innovative typology of religiously oriented political parties, the book examines cases from different regions of the world and different religious traditions to highlight the significance of religion for party politics. This interest for religiously oriented parties is combined with an interest in processes of democratic change and democratic consolidation. Political parties are central to the success of processes of democratization while religion is seen in many circles as an element that prevents such success because it is perceived to be a polarising factor detrimental to the consensus necessary to build a liberal-democratic system. Through the different case studies presented here, a much more complex picture emerges, where religiously oriented political parties perform very different and often contradicting roles with respect to democratic change.
This book was previously published as a special issue of Democratization.
Luca Ozzano is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Turin, in Italy. His research focuses on the relation between religion and democracy, both in theoretical terms, and in relation to case studies such as Italy and Turkey.
Francesco Cavatorta is Associate Professor of Political Science at Universit Laval in Qubec, Canada. His research broadly focuses on the politics of the Arab world and specifically on Islamist movements, Islamist parties and democratization.
Democratization Special Issues
Series editors:
Jeffrey Haynes, London Metropolitan University, UK
Aurel Croissant, University of Heidelberg, Germany
The journal, Democratization, emerged in 1994, during the third wave of democracy, a period which saw democratic transformation of dozens of regimes around the world. Over the last decade or so, the journal has published a number of special issues as books, each of which has focused upon cutting edge issues linked to democratization. Collectively, they underline the capacity of democratization to induce debate, uncertainty, and perhaps progress towards better forms of politics, focused on the achievement of the democratic aspirations of men and women everywhere.
Religiously Oriented Parties and Democratization
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2. The Performance and Persistence of Autocracies
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Twenty Years of Studying Democratization
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2. Democratization, Democracy and Authoritarian Continuity
3. Building Blocks of Democracy
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Edited by Elliott Green, Johanna Sderstrm and Emil Uddhammar
Conflicting Objectives in Democracy Promotion
Do All Good Things Go Together?
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