Democracy without Democrats?
Renewal of Politics in the Muslim World
Published in March 1994
Book
Hardback
450 pages
978-1-85043-748-2 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of works by experts on Middle East politics aims to challenge the prevailing assumptions and offer alternative perspectives which can broaden the discussion of democratization. The contributors attempt to redefine the definitions and rules of political participation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85043-748-2 (9781850437482)
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Content
Part I 1 John Waterbury (Research Program in Development Studies, Princeton University) Democracy without democrats? The potential for political liberalization in the Middle East 2 Jean Leca (Institut d'etudes politiques, Universite de Paris) Democratization in the Arab world: uncertainty, vulnerability and legitimacy: a tentative conceptualization and some hypotheses 3 Ghassan Salame (Institut d'etudes politiques, Universite de Paris) Democracy as an instrument of civil peace 4 Aziz al-Azmeh (Dept of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter) Recent discourse on democracy in the Arab world: theses and proposals 5 Giacome Luciani (Economic advisor, Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei, Milan) The fiscal crisis of the state and democratization 6 Philippe Fargues (CEDEJ, Cairo) Demographic or social explosion? Part 2 7 Roger Owen (Oxford University) Socioeconomic change and political mobilization: The case of Egypt 8 Gudrun Kramer (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Ebenhausen) The integration of the integrists: a comparative study of Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia 9 Abdelbaki Hermissi (Tunisian Ambassador to France, and UNESCO delegate) The political impact of socioeconomic transformations: The case of North Africa 10 Volker Perthes (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Ebenhausen) The private sector, economic liberalization and the prospects of democratization: The case of Syria compared with other Arab countries 11 Jean-Francois Bayard (CERI, Paris) Republican trajectories in Iran and Turkey: A Tocquevillian reading 12 Olivier Roy (CNRS, Paris) Clientelism and solidarity groups in Central Asia