After Repression (eBook)

How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition

Elizabeth R. Nugent (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20307-2 (ISBN)

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How differing forms of repression shape the outcomes of democratic transitionsIn the wake of the Arab Spring, newly empowered factions in Tunisia and Egypt vowed to work together to establish democracy. In Tunisia, political elites passed a new constitution, held parliamentary elections, and demonstrated the strength of their democracy with a peaceful transfer of power. Yet in Egypt, unity crumbled due to polarization among elites. Presenting a new theory of polarization under authoritarianism, After Repression reveals how polarization and the legacies of repression led to these substantially divergent political outcomes.Drawing on original interviews and a wealth of new historical data, Elizabeth Nugent documents polarization among the opposition in Tunisia and Egypt prior to the Arab Spring, tracing how different kinds of repression influenced the bonds between opposition groups. She demonstrates how widespread repression created shared political identities and decreased polarization-such as in Tunisia-while targeted repression like that carried out against the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt led opposition groups to build distinct identities that increased polarization among them. This helps explain why elites in Tunisia were able to compromise, cooperate, and continue on the path to democratic consolidation while deeply polarized elites in Egypt contributed to the rapid reentrenchment of authoritarianism.Providing vital new insights into the ways repression shapes polarization, After Repression helps to explain what happened in the turbulent days following the Arab Spring and illuminates the obstacles to democratic transitions around the world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b/w illus. 9 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: activism • Algeria • Amnesty International • Ancien Régime • Andrew Reynolds • Anwar Sadat • arab spring • assassination • authoritarianism • Beji Caid Essebsi • Cambridge University Press • Career • Central Security Forces • centrism • Civil Society • Colonialism • communism • comrade • constitutional amendment • Criticism • Democracy • democratic consolidation • Democratic Transitions in the Arab World • Democratization • Dictatorship • Egyptian Social Democratic Party • Election • Ennahda Movement • Ettajdid Movement • Freedom and Justice Party (Egypt) • Governance • Government • Habib Bourguiba • Hamadi Jebali • Hamma Hammami • harassment • historical legacies • Hosni Mubarak • hunger strike • Ibrahim Elbadawi • Identity politics • Ideology • incumbent • Ingroups and outgroups • Institution • Intifada • Islamism • Jason Brownlee • Judiciary • Lab Experiments • left-wing politics • Legislation • Legitimacy (political) • Liberalization • Manifesto • Marc Lynch • Mass arrest • Mass Mobilization • Middle East politics • Militant (Trotskyist group) • Mixed Methods • Mohamed Bouazizi • Mohamed ElBaradei • Mohamed Ghannouchi • Mohamed Morsi • Monopoly on Violence • Multi-Party System • Muslim Brotherhood • New Contentious Politics in the Middle East • New Wafd Party • Nidaa Tounes • Nidaa Tounes party • Omar Suleiman • Opposition Party • Organizational Structure • Oxford University Press • Party leader • Party System • path dependence • Pathways of Repression and Reform • Persecution • Political Crime • Political division • Political Economy • Political Party • Political prisoner • Political Psychology • Political repression • Political Science • political spectrum • Politician • Politics • Postdoctoral researcher • Princeton University Press • Process tracing • Protest • Public sphere • Referendum • Regime • Resignation • Respondent • Samir Makdisi • sayyid • secret police • Secularism • Secularization • security forces • Shura Council • Social Movement • state of emergency • Tarek Masoud • terrorism • The Arab Spring • The Arab Uprisings Explained • the islamist • Torture • Totalitarianism • Transitional Justice • Transliteration • Tunisia • Voting • wafd party • Yale University • Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20307-5 / 0691203075
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20307-2 / 9780691203072