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Democracy in the Arab world : explaining the deficit / edited by Samir Makdisi and Ibrahim Elbadawi.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ; 27.
- Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ; 27
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Despotism--Arab countries.
- Despotism.
- Political culture--Arab countries.
- Political culture.
- Arab countries--Politics and government.
- Arab countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London, [England] : Routledge ; Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Despite notable socio-economic development in the Arab region, a deficit in democracy and political rights has continued to prevail. This book examines the major reasons underlying the persistence of this democracy deficit over the past decades and touches on the prospects for deepening the process of democratization in the Arab World.Contributions from major scholars in the region give a cross country analysis of economic development, political institutions and social factors, and the impact of oil wealth and regional wars, and present a model for democracy in the Arab world. Case s
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Democracy and development: Conceptual and cross-country perspectives; 1 Political culture and the crisis of democracy in the Arab world; 2 Explaining the Arab democracy deficit: The role of oil and conflicts; Part II: Case studies: Oil, conflict and beyond; 3 Jordan: propellers of autocracy: The Arab-Israeli conflict and foreign power interventions; 4 Lebanon: the constrained democracy and its national impact
- 5 Syria: the underpinnings of autocracy: Conflict, oil and the curtailment of economic freedom6 The Gulf region: beyond oil and wars: The role of history and geopolitics in explaining autocracy; 7 Algeria: democracy and development under the aegis of the 'authoritarian bargain'; 8 Iraq: understanding autocracy: Oil and conflict in a historical and socio-political context; 9 Egypt: development, liberalization and the persistence of autocracy; 10 Sudan: colonial heritage, social polarization and the democracy deficit; Part III: Summing up
- 11 The democracy deficit in the Arab world: An interpretive synthesisIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-97961-1
- 1-136-97962-X
- 1-282-89869-8
- 9786612898693
- 0-203-85286-9
- 9780203852866
- OCLC:
- 680036262
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