Democracy’s Future: More Liberal, Preliberal, or Postliberal?

Efforts to do comparative research on political attitudes have been complicated by varying understandings of “democracy.” The Afrobarometer is exploring new techniques to overcome this difficulty.

A review of The Quality of Democracy in Latin America, edited by Daniel H. Levine and José E. Molina.

The journalistic and policy communities have been alive with speculation as to whether Islamist groups involved in politics—including Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Palestine’s Hamas— are true believers in democracy or…