Minorities in the Middle East: Ethnicity, Religion, and Support for Authoritarianism
Author: Belge, Ceren and Karakoç, Ekrem
Publisher/Publication: Political Research Quarterly
Volume/Issue: 68(2)
DOI/ISBN: www.jstor.org/stable/24371832
This article attempts to correlate the status of minorities in the Middle East with their attitudes towards democratization. The writers argue that minorities whose status is threatened by a transition to majoritarian decision making institutions are less likely to be supportive of democratization. Based on survey research and a comparison of minorities in Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, they argue that linguistic minorities tend to be less supportive of authoritarianism while religious minorities to be more supportive of authoritarianism.
