We praise democracy most of the time, but we practice it as if we had accepted every argument against it, as if we believed it must depress the level of culture and of public life
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Ali Akbar MahdiAli Akbar Mahdi is professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Ohio Wesleyan University. Among his books are Sociology in Iran (1992, with A Lahsaeizadeh), and Iranian Culture, Civil Society, and Concern for Democracy (1998). His homepage is here. Recent articlesIran's reformers: a future that works The details of Iran’s presidential election result reveal a more complex picture than at first appeared, and a more hopeful one for democratic reformers. But to meet the challenge, they must break historic patterns and be prepared to change, says Ali Akbar Mahdi. |
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