Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; Methodology and Organization; Overview of the Book; Notes; Chapter 2: Democracy; Democracy and Its Evolution; Democracy and Its Prerequisites; Economic Development and Democracy; Democracy and Economic Inequality; Culture and Democracy; Sociopolitical Variables and Democracy; Religion and Democracy; The Role of Ideology; Islam and Democracy; Some Misconceptions; Notes; Chapter 3: Theories and Measures of Democratization; Society-State Relations and Democratization; External Factors; Measures for the Explanatory Variables in This Study; Democracy and The Quality of Human Development; Democracy and the Human Development Index (HDI); Democracy and Economic Inequality or Poverty (AP); Quality of Development and Poverty; Organizational Unity of Labor (OUL)State-Society Power ResourcesState Power; State-Society Relations; Measures of State Power; Measures of Society-State Power Relations; Measures of Democratization in this Study; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4: Islam, Civil Society, and Democracy; Current Studies of Islam in Politics: A Critique; Why Resurgent Islam; Ideological Currents in Islam; Islam in Power; Current Ideological Struggle Within Islam; Islam and the Debate on Civil Society; The Imperative of Institutionalized Participation for Democracy; Islam in Electoral Politics; Conclusion: Prospects for Democratization; Policy Implications for Islamic Leaders; Notes; Chapter 5: Empirical Analysis and Alternative Explanations of Democratization; Islam and Empirical Findings of Previous Studies; Alternative Hypotheses: GNP Per Capita, and Knowledge Distribution; The Variables and Their Correlations; Should-Be Democracies; The Near-Democracies in less-Developed Countries; More-Plausible Near-Democracies; Less-Plausible Potential Near-Democracies; Least-Plausible Potential-Democracies; Conclusion; Notes Chapter 6: Conclusion; Appendices; Index.
