Political Parties in the Arab World : : Continuity and Change / / Francesco Cavatorta, Lise Storm.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Cavatorta, Francesco,; Storm, Lise,
• MitwirkendeR: Alles, Larissa,; Cavatorta, Francesco,; Daher, Aurélie,; Debuysere, Loes,; Edwards, Sophie A.,; Jamal, Manal A.,; Kamel, Amir M.,; Kraetzschmar, Hendrik,; Kyak, Anass El,; Ojeda-García, Raquel,; Pall, Zoltan,; Resta, Valeria,; Storm, Lise,; Wolf, Anne,; Yaghi, Mohammad,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations

Analyses political parties and party politics in the contemporary Arab worldThe Middle East is a region notorious for political systems traditionally built around absolutist monarchs and military-dependent presidents. What is the role of political parties in such a context? How do they support or un...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Do Arabs not do parties? An introduction and exploration
• Part 1 Party families
• Chapter 2 Leftist parties in the Arab region before and after the Arab Uprisings: ‘unrequited love’?
• Chapter 3 What are ‘secular’ parties in the Arab world? Insights from Tunisia’s Nidaa Tounes and Morocco’s PAM
• Chapter 4 The institutionalisation of Islamist political parties after the uprisings
• Chapter 5 Do Salafi parties represent a contradiction in terms? The development and fragmentation of Kuwait’s Salafi Islamic Group
• Part 2 International constraints
• Chapter 6 Shi’ism, national belonging and political Islam: the Hezbollah and the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon
• Chapter 7 Party politics in the Palestinian Territories
• Chapter 8 Sectarian friction and the struggle for power: party politics in Iraq post-2003
• Chapter 9 Post-Gaddafi Libya: rejecting a political party system
• Part 3 Societal constituents
• Chapter 10 Tribes and political parties in the contemporary Arab world: a reassessment from Yemen
• Chapter 11 In the shadow of legality: proto-parties and participatory politics in the Emirate of Kuwait
• Chapter 12 Transformations in the political party system in Mauritania: the case of the Union for the Republic
• Chapter 13 Women’s political inclusion and prospects for democracy in North Africa
• Chapter 14 Why did Tunisian and Egyptian youth activists fail to build competitive political parties?
• Conclusion and perspectives
• Chapter 15 Arab parties in context: lessons learned
• The contributors
• Index