REMARKS BY CARL GERSHMAN DELIVERED AT THE CONFERENCE “DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL: RELIGION, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND DEMOCRATIC THEORY” THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO DIVINITY SCHOOL

When Jean Bethke Elshtain’s Democracy on Trial appeared in 1995, it attracted great attention because it challenged the democratic triumphalism that still prevailed in the United States in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dramatic expansion of democracy around the...

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Latin America and Caribbean

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Europe

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Africa

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