Does Democracy Need Religion?

Issue Date January 2000
Volume 11
Issue 1
Page Numbers 87-94
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About the Author

Hillel Fradkin is senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and director of its Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World. He is also the founder and coeditor of the Hudson Institute’s periodical review Current Trends in Islamist Ideology.

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