The recent history and politics of Egypt illuminates the tortuous and often contradictory relationship between liberalization and democracy in Third World countries. Eberhard Kienle argues that the much-vaunted reform and liberalization of Egypt’s economy has been partial and selective, far from benefiting everybody. The author looks at how economic reform and liberalization have failed to produce a greater degree of political democracy: notions of elective pluralism, political accountability, clean elections, a genuinely free press, and the containment of police powers, which have turned out to be a great delusion masking restrictions on political participation and civil liberties. This book will shed much light on the dilemma between political and economic reform faced by so many developing countries today.
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Eberhard Kienle is Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London) and Chair of its Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies.
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The restrictions on liberties that were already in place at the end of the 1990s had been imposed at various points in time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
jarida rasmiyya, socialist prosecutor, syndicate elections, professional syndicates, conflicts between the regime, counting centres, conflict between the regime, regime candidates, private voluntary associations, positive liberties, popular councils, public business sector, union apparatus, les élections législatives, wealthy candidates, ten deputies, political liberalization, negative liberties, economic liberalization, liberal political order, candidates close Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
People's Assembly, Muslim Brothers, Labour Party, Supreme State Security Courts, President Mubarak, State Council, Muslim Brotherhood, Consultative Assembly, Higher Press Council, Court of Cassation, Ibn Khaldun Center, Majdi Husayn, Court of Ethics, Supreme Constitutional Court, Wafd Party, Academy of Islamic Research, Council of Ministers, Third World, Umma Party, United States, Free Officers, World Bank, American Chamber of Commerce, Jama'a Islamiyya, Ministry of Employment New!
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jarida rasmiyya, socialist prosecutor, syndicate elections, professional syndicates, conflicts between the regime, counting centres, conflict between the regime, regime candidates, private voluntary associations, positive liberties, popular councils, public business sector, union apparatus, les élections législatives, wealthy candidates, ten deputies, political liberalization, negative liberties, economic liberalization, liberal political order, candidates close Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
People's Assembly, Muslim Brothers, Labour Party, Supreme State Security Courts, President Mubarak, State Council, Muslim Brotherhood, Consultative Assembly, Higher Press Council, Court of Cassation, Ibn Khaldun Center, Majdi Husayn, Court of Ethics, Supreme Constitutional Court, Wafd Party, Academy of Islamic Research, Council of Ministers, Third World, Umma Party, United States, Free Officers, World Bank, American Chamber of Commerce, Jama'a Islamiyya, Ministry of Employment New!
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- Directions of Change in Rural Egypt by Nicholas S. Hopkins on 5 pages
- Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-Based Lending, Vol. 1 by Paul Mosley on 4 pages
- The New Authoritarianism in Latin America by David Collier on 4 pages
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- State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East by Roger Owen in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Doing Business in the Middle East: Politics and Economic Crisis in Jordan and Kuwait (Cambridge Middle East Studies) by Pete W. Moore on page 29, and Back Matter
- The Middle East in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology (The Contemporary Middle East) by Fred Halliday on page 160, and Back Matter
- Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Middle East by Diane Singerman on page 70, and page 149
- Networks of Privilege in the Middle East: The Politics of Economic Reform Revisited by Steven Heydemann on page 294, and Back Matter
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