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The economics of democracy in Muslim countries.(Focus on Governance)

Last year was a tumultuous one for democracy in Muslim-majority countries. On July 22, 2007, despite Turkish military warnings three months earlier about the danger to secularism posed by the impending election/the Islamist Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi--AKP) won the Turkish parliamentary elections, leading Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to proclaim "democracy, security, and stability" to be the real winners. (2) Then, on November 3, 2007, General Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan, suspending the constitution. Shortly after, assassins gunned down Benazir Bhutto, the leading secular oppositionist. Such events demonstrate ...

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