عنوان

Democracy without democrats? :

(Number (ISBN

1850438668

Country Code

IR

Number

2-2757

Language of Intermediate Text when Item is Not Translated from Original

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Democracy without democrats? :

Other Title Information

the renewal of politics in the muslim world /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Ghassan Salamé.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

I.B. Tauris,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2001.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

[vii], 340 p. ;

Dimensions

25 cm.

Text of Note

Introduction: Where are the Democrats? / Ghassan Salame -- 1. Democracy Without Democrats?: the potential for political liberalization in the Middle East / John Waterbury -- 2. Democratization in the Arab World: uncertainty, vulnerability and legitimacy. A tentative conceptualization and some hypotheses / Jean Leca -- 3. Small is Pluralistic: democracy as an instrument of civil peace / Ghassan Salame -- 4. Populism Contra Democracy: recent democratist discourse in the Arab world / Aziz Al-Azmeh -- 5. The Oil Rent, the Fiscal Crisis of the State and Democratization / Giacomo Luciani -- 6. Demographic Explosion or Social Upheaval? / Philippe Fargues -- 7. Socio-economic Change and Political Mobilization: the case of Egypt / Roger Owen -- 8. The Integration of the Integrists: a comparative study of Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia / Gundrun Kramer -- 9. Socio-economic Change and Political Implications: the Maghreb / Abdelbaki Hermassi.

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l0. The Private Sector, Economic Liberalization, and the Prospects of Democratization: the case of Syria and some other Arab countries / Volker Perthes -- 11. Patronage and Solidarity Groups: survival or reformation? / Olivier Roy -- 12. Republican Trajectories in Iran and Turkey: a Tocquevillian reading / Jean-Francois Bayart.

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Ideas of democracy and political liberalization have recently become central to political debate within and about the Middle East. The current focus on the merits of democratic practice in many areas of the world, coupled with the spread of economic liberalism, will inevitably, according to some accounts, bring about a measure of political pluralism.

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Against this, the persistence of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, together with the fragility of experiments with democracy, has revived an old argument among some Western academics and among many proponents of cultural nationalism within the Middle East, that Islam and democracy are essentially irreconcilable.

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This book brings together many of the best-known writers on Middle Eastern politics to address the issues that inform the debate. In particular, the contributors challenge the assumption that the Middle East is a unique case, resistant to the social, economic and ideological trends that shape politics throughout the world.

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The authors draw on a rich fund of theory and refer to a number of national cases to discuss social change, institutional evolution and the prevailing political discourse in the Middle East and to offer new framework within which to analyse the process of democratization.

Dates

20081029

Democracy - Islamic countries.

Islamic countries - Politics and government.

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Class number

Book number

Salamah, Ghassan.

Date of Transaction

20081029104925.0

BL

129675

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