Unless Arab political culture is shown to be uniquely and permanently inimical to electoral competitiveness, it makes more sense to understand the democratic divide in the Muslim world in terms of the political - as opposed to the ethnic or religious - particularities of the Middle East and North Africa.
A menos que la cultura árabe demuestre ser particular y permanentemente impermeable a la competitividad electoral, tiene más sentido entender la brecha democrática en el mundo musulmán en términos de las particularidades políticas (y no étnicas o religiosas) del Medio Oriente y África del Norte.