Barriers to Democracy : : The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the Arab World / / Amaney A. Jamal.

Democracy-building efforts from the early 1990s on have funneled billions of dollars into nongovernmental organizations across the developing world, with the U.S. administration of George W. Bush leading the charge since 2001. But are many such "civil society" initiatives fatally flawed? F...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2007
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 12 tables. 2 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Note to the Reader
  • CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: Democratic Outcomes and Associational Life
  • CHAPTER TWO. Associational Life in the Centralized Authoritarian Context of the West Bank
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Polarization of Palestinian Associational Life
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Trust, Engagement, and Democracy
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Beyond Palestine: Morocco, Jordan, and Egypt
  • Chapter Six. Conclusion:Toward a Theory of Democratic Citizenship in State-Centralized Nations
  • Appendixes
  • Bibliography
  • Index