Pacted democracy in the Middle East : Tunisia and Egypt in comparative perspective / Hicham Alaoui.
This book provides a new theory for how democracy can materialize in the Middle East, and the broader Muslim world. It shows that one pathway to democratization lays not in resolving important, but often irreconcilable, debates about the role of religion in politics. Rather, it requires that Islamis...
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2022]
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| Series: | St. Antony's series (Palgrave (Firm)).
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2022 English/International |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Locating the Inquiry
- 2. History, Secularism, and Islam
- 3. A Theory of Pacted Democracy
- 4. Tunisia Development and State Formation
- 5. Tunisian Pacting and Islamist-Secularist Compromise
- 6. Egypt as Case of Failed Pacting
- 7. Conclusion.