{"product_id":"9781421414171","title":"Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeginning in December 2010, a series of uprisings swept the Arab world, toppling four longtime leaders and creating an apparent political opening in a region long impervious to the \"third wave\" of democratization. Despite the initial euphoria, the legacies of authoritarianism—polarized societies, politicized militaries, state-centric economies, and pervasive clientelism—have proven stubborn obstacles to the fashioning of new political and social contracts. Meanwhile, the strong electoral performance of political Islamists and the ensuing backlash in Egypt have rekindled arguments about the compatibility of democracy and political Islam. Even though progress toward democracy has been halting at best, the region’s political environment today bears little resemblance to what it was before the uprisings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDemocratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World\u003c\/i\u003e, leading scholars address the questions posed by this period of historic change in the Middle East and North Africa. This volume includes chapters examining several broad themes: the region’s shifting political culture, the relationship between democracy and political Islam, the legacy of authoritarian ruling arrangements, the strengths and vulnerabilities of remaining autocracies, and the lessons learned from transitions to democracy in other parts of the world. It also features chapters analyzing the political development of individual countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen, and the monarchies of the Gulf. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHicham Ben Abdallah El Alaoui\u003cbr\u003eApril Longley Alley\u003cbr\u003eZoltan Barany\u003cbr\u003eAhmed Benchemsi\u003cbr\u003eMieczysław P. Boduszyński\u003cbr\u003eNathan J. Brown\u003cbr\u003eJason Brownlee\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Brumberg\u003cbr\u003eJohn M. Carey\u003cbr\u003eMichele Dunne\u003cbr\u003eAbdou Filali-Ansary\u003cbr\u003eHillel Fradkin\u003cbr\u003eF. Gregory Gause III\u003cbr\u003eHusain Haqqani\u003cbr\u003eSteven Heydemann\u003cbr\u003ePhilip N. Howard\u003cbr\u003eMuzammil M. Hussain\u003cbr\u003eAmaney Jamal\u003cbr\u003eStéphane Lacroix\u003cbr\u003eJuan J. Linz\u003cbr\u003eTarek Masoud\u003cbr\u003eMarc F. Plattner\u003cbr\u003eTarek Radwan\u003cbr\u003eHamadi Redissi\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Reynolds\u003cbr\u003eMichael Robbins\u003cbr\u003eOlivier Roy\u003cbr\u003ePeter J. Schraeder\u003cbr\u003eAlfred Stepan\u003cbr\u003eMark Tessler\u003cbr\u003eFrédéric Volpi\u003cbr\u003eLucan Way\u003cbr\u003eFrederic Wehrey\u003cbr\u003eSean L. Yom\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133825302768,"sku":"9781421414171","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781421414171_p0.jpg?v=1769899198","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781421414171","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}