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Rethinking Arab Democratization - Elections without Democracy (Hardcover, New)
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Rethinking Arab Democratization - Elections without Democracy (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Democratization
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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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