Political Parties in the Arab World (eBook, PDF)

Continuity and Change
Redaktion: Cavatorta, Francesco; Storm, Lise

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Middle East is a region notorious for political systems traditionally built around absolutist monarchs and military-dependent presidents. What is the role of political parties in such a context? How do they support or undermine such authoritarian forms of rule? What part have they played in the survival and transformation of political systems after the Arab uprisings? What are the policy preferences of party elites and how do they connect with citizens' expectations? How do parties challenge and reflect the main social cleavages? Finally, what is the genuine significance of parties and party politics in a region struggling for some sort of democratic future? This book attempts to answer these questions through a thorough theoretical and empirical examination and analysis of the most important aspects and traits of political parties and party politics in the Arab world, exploring cases from across the region.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474424080
• Artikelnr.: 54672514

Autorenporträt

Francesco Cavatorta is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Université Laval, Québec, Canada. He is co-author (with Vincent Durac) of Politics and Governance in the Arab world (2015) and The International dimension of the failed Algerian transition (2009). Lise Storm is Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter. She is author of Party Politics and Prospects for Democracy in North Africa (2013) and Democratisation in Morocco: The Political Elite and Struggles for Power in the Post-Independence State (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Foreword: Do Arabs not do parties? An exploration and introduction; Lise
Storm and Francesco Cavatorta
Part 1: Party families
Leftist parties in the Arab region before and after the Arab uprisings:
unrequited love?; Valeria Resta
What are secular parties in the Arab world? Insights from Tunisia's Nidaa
Tounes and Morocco's PAM; Anne Wolf
The institutionalisation of Islamist political parties after the uprisings;
Anass El Kyak
Do Salafi parties represent a contradiction in terms? The development and
fragmentation of Kuwait Salafi Islamic Group; Zoltan Pall
Part 2: International constraints
Shi'ism, national belonging and political Islam: the Hezbollah and the
Islamic resistance in Lebanon; Aurélie Daher
Party politics in the Palestinian Territories; Manal Jamal
Sectarian friction and the struggle for power: party politics in Iraq post
2003; Sophie A. Edwards
Post-Qadhafi Libya: rejecting a political party system; Amir Kamel
Part 3: Societal constituents
Tribes and political parties in the contemporary Arab world: a reassessment
of Yemen; Larissa Alles
In the shadows of legality: proto-parties and participatory politics in the
Emirate of Kuwait; Hendrik Kraetzschmar
Transformations in the political party system in Mauritania: the case of
the Union for the Republic; Raquel Ojeda-García
Women's political inclusion and prospects for democracy in North Africa;
Loes Debuysere
Why did the Egyptian and Tunisian youth activists fail to build competitive
political parties?; Mohammed Yaghi
Conclusion and perspectives
Arab parties in context: lessons learned; Francesco Cavatorta and Lise
Storm
List of contributors
Index