Rethinking Arab Democratization - Elections Without Democracy

Zusatztext The author combines to great advantage a close and critical familiarity with the politics of the Arab Middle East and Islamic culture with equally close knowledge of the relevant Western democratization literature. The result is a remarkable book that greatly advances our knowledge of those countries and of their -- surely convoluted but not inexistent -- possible paths toward democracy. Informationen zum Autor Larbi Sadiki specializes on Arab democratization, a subject he teaches at the University of Exeter, where he is Director of the Middle East Politics Programme. He has published widely on the question of democratic transitions in the Arab Middle East. He has been researching two separate projects on Islamist notions of democracy, with special reference to Hamas and Hizbullah, titles of forthcoming works he is currently authoring. His first book on Arab democratization (Columbia, 2004) has been translated into Arabic and is widely used as the key reference on notions of Arab democracy. Klappentext How do Arab countries democratize? This is the key question this book seeks to answer. To this end, the book assesses Arab democratic experiments and analyzes the opportunities and perils, highlighting the peculiarities of democratic transitions in the Arab Middle East. Zusammenfassung How do Arab countries democratize? This is the key question this book seeks to answer. To this end, the book assesses Arab democratic experiments and analyzes the opportunities and perils, highlighting the peculiarities of democratic transitions in the Arab Middle East. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Rethinking Democratization in the Arab Context 2: Mapping out Arab Electoralism, 1998-2007 3: Elections without Democracy: The False Starts, 1975-1997 4: The Greater Middle East Initiative: A US Democracy Promotion 'Road Map'? 5: Catalysts from Below: Transition and 'Bread Riots' 6: Al-Jazeerah and the Internet as Sites of Democratic Struggle 7: Conclusions ...

Product details

• Authors: Larbi Sadiki, Sadiki Larbi
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2009
• EAN: 9780199562985
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956298-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 248 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Oxford Studies in Democratization; Oxford Studies in Democratizat; Oxford Studies in Democratizat; Oxford Studies in Democratization
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory, Elections & referenda, Elections and referenda / suffrage