Islam as Part of European Society

Abstract

both parties integrated masses of newly enfranchised voters into existing liberal parliamen-tary regimes, and both were deradicalized in the process, becoming part of the very insti-tutions they initially rejected. … [D]emocracy in Europe was often expanded and consolidat-ed by its enemies. This lesson should not be lost, especially among those studying the challenges facing democratic transition and consolidation in the contemporary world. (Ka-lyvas, 1996, 264)