ABSTRACT
This comprehensive Handbook analyses the political parties and party systems across the Middle East and North Africa. Providing an in-depth, empirically grounded and novel study of political parties, the volume focuses on a region where they have been traditionally and often erroneously dismissed.
The book is divided into five sections, examining:
- the trajectories of Islamist, Salafi, leftist, liberal, nationalist, and personalistic parties drawing from different countries;
- the role political parties play in authoritarian and semi-authoritarian countries;
- the centrality of political parties in democratic or democratising settings;
- the relationship between parties and specific social constituencies, ranging from women to youth to tribes and sects; and
- the policy positions of parties on a number of issues, including neo-liberal economics, identity, foreign policy and the role of violence.
This wide-ranging and systematic analysis is a key resource for students and scholars interested in party politics, democratization and authoritarianism, and the Middle East and North Africa.
Chapter 18 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780429269219
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|81 pages
Party families
part II|65 pages
Political parties in authoritarian settings
chapter 9|11 pages
Political intermediation in the Arabian Peninsula
part III|66 pages
Political parties in democratic settings
part IV|89 pages
Political parties and social constituencies
chapter 24|11 pages
Urban bias, rural embeddedness
part V|50 pages
Political parties and policy positions