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Counting Islam - Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt (Hardcover)
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Counting Islam - Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt (Hardcover)
Series: Problems of International Politics
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Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when
the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would
seem to render it promising terrain for a politics of radical
redistribution rather than one of religious conservativism? This
book argues that the answer lies not in the political
unsophistication of voters, the subordination of economic interests
to spiritual ones, or the ineptitude of secular and leftist
politicians, but in organizational and social factors that shape
the opportunities of parties in authoritarian and democratizing
systems to reach potential voters. Tracing the performance of
Islamists and their rivals in Egyptian elections over the course of
almost forty years, this book not only explains why Islamists win
elections, but illuminates the possibilities for the emergence in
Egypt of the kind of political pluralism that is at the heart of
what we expect from democracy.
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