عنوان

The state and civil society in the Arab Middle East

Number

TL48140

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

The state and civil society in the Arab Middle East

General Material Designation

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General Material Designation

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Stacey E. Pollard

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Butterfield, James

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Western Michigan University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

267

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-58983-2

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Body granting the degree

Western Michigan University

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

While the notion that civil society organizations can democratize authoritarian regimes from below has become an article of faith among many policy makers and democracy promoters, some area experts warn that practitioners and advocates should not overestimate civil society's democratizing role. This dissertation challenges a large body of scholarship on civil society by arguing that while civil society may constitute a democratic force in any given polity it may also be comprised of less democratic, even radically undemocratic forces as well. Therefore, commensurate with the research yielding that finding, this project argues that on an account of the nature of Middle Eastern regimes civil society is more often a key dependent rather than independent variable.

Middle Eastern Studies; Near Eastern Studies; Political science

Subject Term

Social sciences;Arab Spring;Authoritarianism;Civil societies;Democracy;Middle Eastern regimes

Al-Salmi, Laila Z.

Butterfield, James

Western Michigan University

Call Number

1660543974; 3690435

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[Thesis]

276903

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