Rethinking Arab Democratization: Elections without Democracy (Oxford Studies in Democratization)
Larbi Sadiki
Language: English
Pages: 343
ISBN: B011DBPNBU
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Rethinking Arab Democratization unpacks and historicizes the rise of Arab electoralism, narrating the story of stalled democratic transition in the Arab Middle East. It provides a balance sheet of the state of Arab democratization from the mid-1970s up to 2008. In seeking to answer the question of how Arab countries democratize and whether they are democratizing at all, the book pays attention to specificity, highlighting the peculiarities of democratic transitions in the Arab Middle East. To this end, it situates the discussion of such transitions firmly within their local contexts, but without losing sight of the global picture, namely, the US drive to control and democratize' the Arab World. Rethinking Arab Democratization rejects exceptionalism', foundationalism', and Orientalism', by showing that the Arab World is not immured from the global trend towards political liberalization. But by identifying new trends in Arab democratic transitions, highlighting their peculiarities and drawing on Arab neglected discourses and voices, it pinpoints the contingency of some of the arguments underlying Western theories of democratic transition when applied to the Arab setting.
Oxford Studies in Democratization is a series for scholars and students of comparative politics and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on the comparative study of the democratization process that accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The geographical focus of the series is primarily Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in Africa and Asia. The series editor is Laurence Whitehead, Official Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University.
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And, consequently, act to rectify the ‘unrealized system of justice’. Mardin contrasts this 38 Rethinking Democratization in the Arab Context Islamic feature with Europe’s ‘rationalization of legal practice and the self-referential aspect of law’.168 The other is the Muslim dream of a just prince, being against the ‘adoption of a concept concerning the gradual perfectibility of man through man’s making of his own history’ [is] ‘linked with primal time, with a yearning for a return of a golden.
Rural areas.’ See Lapidus, A History of Islamic Societies, 325. Ernest Gellner, Muslim Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 5. Ibid. 41. Lapidus, A History of Islamic Societies, 325. Ibid. 326. Ibid. 327. See Ernest Gellner, Postmodernism, Reason and Religion (London and New York: Routledge, 1992), 9–11. See also Gellner, ‘Civil Society in Historical Context’, 506. Gellner, ‘Civil Society in Historical Context’, 506. 58 Rethinking Democratization in the Arab Context 186.
Abdallahi attained power with the support of a pro-Taya coalition.’49 The constitutional amendments of 2006 limiting presidential tenure to two terms are one gain. They go against amendments undertaken in Tunisia in 2002 and being considered in Algeria to do away with the two-term tenure. Like in Mauritania, in states like Algeria, Egypt, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen the Army seems to be always lurking in the political background. In Algeria (with weaker but continuous Islamist insurgency).
Maintains the confessional political system, not democratic transformation. This is in spite of the fact that Lebanon ironically owes its pluralism to the confessional system, which has created multiple vibrant and self-regenerating civil and confessional societies.68 Citizens are cemented to these societies to which they turn for protection, Mapping out Arab Electoralism, 1998–2008 91 identification, and political socialization. The state, by comparison, is weak. Thus Lebanon’s brand of.
Guardianship and tutelage over Iraq’s nation and state-building. If the AME is clustered in a single ‘classroom’ to be drilled into the sine qua non brand of learning vital for the globalized world, Iraq is slotted in a different ‘classroom’ for ‘private’ and exclusive tuition by the United States. The ‘Greater’ or ‘Broader’ Middle East has lost Iraq. Thus the G-8-led workshop, primarily under the auspices of the 174 The Greater Middle East Initiative United States, is a two-track workshop in.