The state and civil society in the Arab Middle East

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" The state and civil society in the Arab Middle East "

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	802960
Doc. No	:	TL48140
Call number	:	‭1660543974;‮ ‬3690435‬
Main Entry	:	Al-Salmi, Laila Z.
Title & Author	:	The state and civil society in the Arab Middle East
	:	\ Stacey E. Pollard
	:	Butterfield, James
College	:	Western Michigan University
Date	:	2014
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2014
Page No	:	267
Note	:	Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-58983-2
Abstract	:	While the notion that civil society organizations can democratize authoritarian regimes from below has become an article of faith among many policy makers and democracy promoters, some area experts warn that practitioners and advocates should not overestimate civil society's democratizing role. This dissertation challenges a large body of scholarship on civil society by arguing that while civil society may constitute a democratic force in any given polity it may also be comprised of less democratic, even radically undemocratic forces as well. Therefore, commensurate with the research yielding that finding, this project argues that on an account of the nature of Middle Eastern regimes civil society is more often a key dependent rather than independent variable.
Subject	:	Middle Eastern Studies; Near Eastern Studies; Political science
Descriptor	:	Social sciences;Arab Spring;Authoritarianism;Civil societies;Democracy;Middle Eastern regimes
Added Entry	:	Butterfield, James
Added Entry	:	Western Michigan University