Democratic Transition in the Middle East : Unmaking Power.

Popular uprisings and revolts across the Arab Middle East have often resulted in a democratic faragh or void in power. How society seeks to fill that void, regardless of whether the regime falls or survives, is the common trajectory followed by the seven empirical case studies published here for the...

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Main Author: Sadiki, Larbi
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
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Summary:Popular uprisings and revolts across the Arab Middle East have often resulted in a democratic faragh or void in power. How society seeks to fill that void, regardless of whether the regime falls or survives, is the common trajectory followed by the seven empirical case studies published here for the first time. This edited volume seeks to unpack the state of the democratic void in three interrelated fields: democracy, legitimacy and social relations. In doing so, the conventional treatment of democratization as a linear, formal, systemic and systematic process is challenged and the p.
Physical Description:1 online resource (225 pages)
ISBN:9781136181672
1136181679