Assessing MENA Political Reform, Post-Arab Spring (eBook, ePUB)

Mediators and Microfoundations
Redaktion: Calfano, Brian Robert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The euphoria and promise that accompanied the Arab Spring has been replaced with a business-as-usual tone in the MENA. Revolutionary shifts in political and religious power have been tempered and, in some cases, reversed. Observers should not be surprised at these outcomes, but skeptics would be advised to remain attentive to regional factors that continue to present potentials for reform. This volume examines a variety of such factors as mediators of MENA political reform, including: Islam, political party and government relations, regime type, elite influence, and Internet access. By providing both a broad review of the relevant literatures and a flexible assessment of the region's political prospects in the post-Spring period, the volume leverages insights from a series of regional experts and political analysts to offer a useful contribution to the continuing work of reform by MENA scholars, policymakers, and the general public.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739135846
• Artikelnr.: 45067365

Autorenporträt

Brian Robert Calfano is associate professor of political science at Missouri State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Introduction. Brian Calfano and Marcus Marktanner
Chapter Two: The Arab Popular Uprisings. Brian Calfano and Emile Sahliyeh
Chapter Three: Islam and Interpretive Ingenuities. Brian Calfano and Lynne
Alisé Lofftus
Chapter Four: Parties as Political Forces in the Maghreb. Abdelhak Azzouzi
Chapter Five: How Green is the Spring? Comparing the Iranian and the Arab
Pro-democracy Movements. Mahmoud Sadri and Nader Hashemi
Chapter Six. Oil and Economic Liberalism in the MENA. Mehmet Gurses
Chapter Seven. Does Regime Type Make a Difference for MENA Reform? Todd
Spinks, Brian Calfano, and Emile Sahliyeh
Chapter Eight. Elite-Led Consideration of the Role of Women in MENA
Politics: Some Initial Experimental Findings. Brian Calfano, Marcus
Marktanner, and Christina Michelmore
Chapter Nine. Transmitting Reform? The Media's Effect on MENA Democracy and
Human Rights. Brian Calfano and Emile Sahliyeh
Chapter Ten. MENA and the Internet: Technology and the Democratic Divide.
Jason Gainous and Kevin Wagner
Chapter Eleven. Concluding Observations and Recommendations. Brian Calfano