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Democracy without democrats? : the renewal of politics in the Muslim world / edited by Ghassan Salamé.

Title: Democracy without democrats? : the renewal of politics in the Muslim world / edited by Ghassan Salamé.
Publication: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris Publishers : In the United States of America and Canada distributed by St Martin's Press, 1994.

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Salāmah, Ghassān.

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340 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Against this, the persistence of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, together with the fragility of experiments with democracy, has revived an old argument among some Western academics and among many proponents of cultural nationalism within the Middle East, that Islam and democracy are essentially irreconcilable.
Ideas of democracy and political liberalization have recently become central to political debate within and about the Middle East. The current focus on the merits of democratic practice in many areas of the world, coupled with the spread of economic liberalism, will inevitably, according to some accounts, bring about a measure of political pluralism.
The authors draw on a rich fund of theory and refer to a number of national cases to discuss social change, institutional evolution and the prevailing political discourse in the Middle East and to offer new framework within which to analyse the process of democratization.
This book brings together many of the best-known writers on Middle Eastern politics to address the issues that inform the debate. In particular, the contributors challenge the assumption that the Middle East is a unique case, resistant to the social, economic and ideological trends that shape politics throughout the world.

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Contents

Democracy without democrats?: the potential for political liberalism in the Middle East / John Waterbury -- Democratization in the Arab world: uncertainty, vulnerability and legitimacy. A tentative conceptualization and some hypotheses / Jean Leca -- Small is pluralistic: democracy as an instrument of civil peace / Ghassan Salamé -- Populism contra democracy: recent democratist discourse in the Arab world / Aziz Al-Azmeh -- The oil rent, the fiscal crisis of the state and democratization / Giacomo Luciani -- Demographic explosion or social upheaval? / Philippe Fargues.
Socio-economic change and political mobilization: the case of Egypt / Roger Owen -- The integration of the integrists: a comparative study of Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia / Gudrun Krämer -- Socio-economic change and political implications: the Maghreb / Abdelbaki Hermassi -- The private sector, economic liberalization, and the prospects of democratization: the case of Syria and some other Arab countries / Volker Perthes -- Patronage and solidarity groups: survival or reformation? / Olivier Roy -- Republican trajectories in Iran and Turkey: a Tocquevillian reading / Jean-François Bayart.

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^^^93060686^

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