Judicial Review and the Arab World

Iraq’s three elections in 2005 highlighted the role—but also the limits—of electoral-system design in managing potentially polarizing divisions.

In hotly contested parliamentary elections, candidates supportive of President Khatami’s reforms won an overwhelming victory.

Read the full essay here. The debate on the compatibility of Islamism and democracy has tended to focus on two main scenarios. In the first, Islamist political parties become agents…