The building of consensus in Egypt's transition process / Noha El-Mikawy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

El-Mikawy, Noha.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Egypt--Politics and government--1981-2011.

Egypt.

Politics and government.

Consensus (Social sciences).

Democracy--Egypt.

Democracy.

Political parties--Egypt.

Political parties.

Physical Description:

160 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cairo [Egypt] : American University in Cairo, 1999.

Summary:

In this study, Noha El-Mikawy explores the changes that have been occurring in Egypt's political system over the past thirty years--three very important decades in the country's transition from authoritarian rule to democracy. By focusing on consensus building as analytically central to the transition process, El-Mikawy picks up an original and fruitful vein in the theoretical debate about the politics of transition and democracy. Her account of the inner workings of the country's major political parties and their ideological divisions provides a wealth of detail for the 1980s and early 1990s that is to be found nowhere else. This book is likely to break through the conspiracy of silence hitherto affecting the inclusion of the Egyptian experience as an empirical reference point in the theoretical literature of transition.

Contents:

3 Pluralist Consensus Building: Ideological Convergence 41

4 Pluralist Consensus Building: Convoking Elections 69

5 The Institutionalization of Consensus Building inside Parliament 97.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9774244982

OCLC:

41484605