Is Islam Compatible With Democracy? Islamist Movement’s Trajectory on Democratization in Indonesia

: Civil Islam : Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia

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Islam and Democracy

Using the POLITY IV and Freedom House indices, Rowley and Smith (2009) found that countries with Muslim majorities enjoy less freedom and are less democratic than countries in which Muslims are a minority. Because the POLITY IV and Freedom House indices have been criticized on several grounds, I reinvestigate Rowley and Smith ́s finding using the new Democracy-Dictatorship data from Cheibub et a...

Participatory democracy in social movements

Participatory democracy refers to an organizational form in which decision making is decentralized, nonhierarchical, and consensus oriented. It can be contrasted with bureaucracy, in which decision making is centralized, hierarchical, and based on a formal division of labor, as well as with majority vote. Participatory democratic organizations have been a prominent feature of many progressive m...

IS THERE A DEVELOPMENTAL THRESHOLD FOR DEMOCRACY? Endogenous factors in the democratization of South Korea

Democracy as an advanced form of politics is not independent from socioeconomic development. This paper examines the developmental threshold for democracy, namely a point in the development process beyond which democracy can be effectively installed and sustained. Based on the two research trends on the issue, a framework of democratic transformation is proposed where two essential factors of s...

The Contest Between Radical-Conservative Islam and Progressive-Liberal Islam in Post-Soeharto Indonesia