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" Middle East and North Africa after the Arab uprisings: An analytical approach to social cleavages and electoral outcomes in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey "
Halil Ege Ozen
Karakoc, Ekrem
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804185
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TL49007
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1839330334; 10158660
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Vyas, Lena M.
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Middle East and North Africa after the Arab uprisings: An analytical approach to social cleavages and electoral outcomes in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey\ Halil Ege OzenKarakoc, Ekrem
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State University of New York at Binghamton
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2016
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Ph.D.
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Political Science
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2016
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241
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Committee members: Akcinaroglu, Seden; McDonald, Michael D.; Schull, Kent F.; Shvetsova, Olga
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-13668-5
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This dissertation builds on an important question that the Arab Uprisings have made possible, but which have remained overlooked and understudied due to the absence of prior experience of democratic transition in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). To what extent have attitudes toward secular politics shaped the outcomes of elections that have been held since the Arab Uprisings? In order to answer this question, I use original survey data collected in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey. Public-opinion surveys allow me to discover salient political attitudes in Egyptian and Tunisian societies during the transition, and to understand the impact of secular politics on electoral support for Islamist and secular parties in these two countries. The last paper of the dissertation focuses on Turkey because of the increasing saliency of ethnic cleavage, which is missing in other two cases, since 2011 general elections. This dissertation offers several contributions to the literature on Middle Eastern politics. First, it provides original empirical data on attitudes toward democracy and the role of religion in politics. Second, citizens of the Middle Eastern societies preserve their belief in democracy as a political system despite their skepticism regarding democracy’s ability to solve social, economic and political problems. Last but not least, the secular–religious cleavage in these societies is still divisive and has significant impact on party choice people make.
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Middle Eastern Studies; North African Studies; Political science
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Social sciences;Middle east;Public opinion;Secularism;Social cleavages;Voting behavior
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Karakoc, Ekrem
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Political ScienceState University of New York at Binghamton
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