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Informationen zum Autor Tarek Masoud is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His writings on political Islam, Egyptian politics, and US foreign policy have appeared in the Journal of Democracy, the Washington Quarterly, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, among others. He is the co-editor of Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics (Cambridge, 2004) and Order, Conflict, and Violence (Cambridge, 2008). He was named a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and received the 2009 Aaron Wildavsky Prize for best dissertation in religion and politics from the American Political Science Association. He is a recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation, and the Harvard Medical School, and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds a PhD from Yale University and an AH from Brown University, both in political science. Klappentext This book explains why Islamist parties have dominated the politics of Egypt for the better part of fifty years. Zusammenfassung Analyzing Islamist electoral performance and behavior before and after the 2011 revolution that unseated former dictator Hosni Mubarak! this book argues that Islamists win elections not because Egyptians are fundamentalists! but because these parties have more organizational resources to call on than their secular rivals. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Islam's steady march; 1. Explaining Islamist dominion; Part I. Elections under Authoritarianism: 2. Clientelism and class: the tragedy of leftist opposition in Mubarak's Egypt; 3. The Islamic machine?; 4. Winning in the 'well-run casino'; Part II. After the 'Arab Spring': 5. God, mammon, and transition; 6. Islam's organizational advantage?; 7. Conclusion; Epilogue: requiescat in pace?
