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Sanford Lakoff

Sanford Lakoff is professor emeritus of political science at the University of California–San Diego. He is the author of Equality in Political Philosophy (1964) and Democracy: History, Theory, Practice (1997).

October 2004, Volume 15, Issue 4

Debate: The Reality of Muslim Exceptionalism

The notion that the Muslim world as a whole does not suffer from a deficit in terms of competitive democracy is apealing, but rests on evidence and assumptions that cannot withstand critical scrutiny.