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Rethinking Arab democratization : elections without democracy / Larbi Sadiki.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sadiki, Larbi.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in democratization.
- Oxford studies in democratization
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--Arab countries.
- Democracy.
- Democratization--Arab countries.
- Democratization.
- Elections--Arab countries.
- Elections.
- Islam and politics--Arab countries.
- Islam and politics.
- Arab countries--Politics and government.
- Arab countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (343 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The book unpacks and historicizes the rise of Arab electoralism, narrating the story of stalled democratic transition in the Arab Middle East. It provides a balance sheet of the state of Arab democratization from the mid-1970s up to 2008. In seeking to answer the question of how Arab countries democratize and whether they are democratizing at all, the book pays attention to specificity, highlighting the peculiarities of democratic transitions in the Arab Middle East. To this end, itsituates the discussion of such transitions firmly within their local contexts, but without losing sight of the g
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Glossary; Introduction; 1. Rethinking Democratization in the Arab Context; 2. Mapping out Arab Electoralism, 1998-2008; 3. Elections Without Democracy: The False Starts, 1975-97; 4. The Greater Middle East Initiative: A US Democracy Promotion 'Road Map'?; 5. Catalysts from Below: Democratic Transition and 'Bread Riots'; 6. Al-Jazeerah and the Internet as Sites of Democratic Struggle; 7. Conclusions; Select Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-299) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-969924-0
- 1-282-07636-1
- 9786612076367
- 9780199699247
- 0-19-156807-4
- OCLC:
- 320967295
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