Judges and Generals in the Making of Modern Egypt - How Institutions Sustain and Undermine Authoritarian Regimes

Discusses why and how the Egyptian judiciary was critically important in bringing down two vastly different regimes in three years.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The historical legacies and the institutional culture of the Egyptian judiciary; 3. Nasser's Egypt: charisma, populism, and the attacks on judicial independence; 4. The years of Sadat: crisis, regime survival, and the awakening of judicial activism; 5. Judicial politics under Mubarak: judges and the fall of the Pharaoh; 6. The scaf, the courts, and Islamists: judges and the political transition; 7. Mursi and the judiciary: the self-fulfilling prophecy; 8. Patricians and plebeians: the chief justice paves the road to the general; 9. Old wine in a new bottle: Ssisi, judges, and the restoration of the ancien régime; References; Index.

About the author

Mahmoud Hamad is an assistant professor of political science at Cairo University and the founding secretary general of the Arab Association of Constitutional Law (2016–18). He previously taught at the University of Utah, Drake University, Iowa, and Brigham Young University, Utah. During his graduate studies, he won two Fulbright awards at the University of Washington and the University of Utah.

Summary

This cross-disciplinary book provides a historically grounded explanation for the rise and demise of authoritarianism. It is the first study of Egypt's judicial institutions within a single analytical framework. It departs methodologically and epistemologically from previous studies and provides valuable insights into the future of politics in Egypt and beyond.

Product details

• Authors: Mahmoud Hamad, Mahmoud (Drake University Hamad, Hamad Mahmoud
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781108425520
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42552-0
• No. of pages: 334
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Social Theory, LAW / General, Egypt, Military administration, Regional, state and other local government, Regional government, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general