Professor Brown will discuss two trends have that grown in ideological force in Arab politics in recent years: one emphasizing popular sovereignty and democratic accountability; the other stressing the divine origin of political authority. Do these operate at cross purposes? And might either...

Fifty years and more of research on the beliefs and fears of citizens have emphasized their vulnerability to prejudice and political intolerance; their minimal levels of political knowledge; the wobbliness of their political preferences; and, not to run on interminably, the feebleness of their...

Fifty years and more of research on the beliefs and fears of citizens have emphasized their vulnerability to prejudice and political intolerance; their minimal levels of political knowledge; the wobbliness of their political preferences; and, not to run on interminably, the feebleness of their...