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Party Building Modern Mid East- CL

Michele Penner Angrist

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Why was Turkey - alone of all the modern states that emerged from the Ottoman Empire - the only Middle Eastern country to evolve lasting competitive political institutions? While democratic processes grew steadily in Turkey during the twentieth century, its neighbors turned to dictatorships and other types of authoritarian rule that reinforced the powers of traditional elites. Michele Angrist argues that democracy and dictatorship in the Middle East can be understood by studying the nature and status of political parties operating at the moment of independence. Looking carefully at Muslim-majority states where parties played a crucial role in state formation between the 1940s and the 1960s, Angrist challenges the idea that Islam, class structures, levels of development, and/or international factors dominated domestic politics in the region.

Language: English

Pages: 247

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Release: November 01, 2006

ISBN: 0295986468

ISBN 13: 9780295986463

Party Building Modern Mid East- CL

Michele Penner Angrist

4/5 ( ratings)

Why was Turkey - alone of all the modern states that emerged from the Ottoman Empire - the only Middle Eastern country to evolve lasting competitive political institutions? While democratic processes grew steadily in Turkey during the twentieth century, its neighbors turned to dictatorships and other types of authoritarian rule that reinforced the powers of traditional elites. Michele Angrist argues that democracy and dictatorship in the Middle East can be understood by studying the nature and status of political parties operating at the moment of independence. Looking carefully at Muslim-majority states where parties played a crucial role in state formation between the 1940s and the 1960s, Angrist challenges the idea that Islam, class structures, levels of development, and/or international factors dominated domestic politics in the region.

Language: English

Pages: 247

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Release: November 01, 2006

ISBN: 0295986468

ISBN 13: 9780295986463

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