An Arab Path to Democracy?

The incentives created by competitive elections in a number of Muslim-majority countries are fueling a political trend that roughly resembles the rise of Christian Democracy in twentieth-century Europe

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

After almost ten years of complex and costly efforts to build democracy in these two countries, where do things stand? What lay behind the critical choices that shaped events in…