Building of Consensus in Egypt's Transition Process

by El-Mikawy, Noha

• ISBN13: 9789774244988
• ISBN10: 9774244982
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press

Summary

Noha el-Mikawy explores the changes that have been occurring in Egypt's political system over the past thirty years--three very important decades in the country's transition from authoritarian rule to democracy By focussing on consensus-building as analytically central to the transition process, el-Mikawy has picked up an original and very fruitful vein in the theoretical debate about the politics of transition and democracy. Her account of the inner workings and ideological divisions among the country's major political parties provides a wealth of detail for the 1980s and early 1990s nowhere else to be found. This book is likely to make a breakthrough in the conspiracy of silence hitherto affecting the inclusion of the Egyptian experience as an empirical reference point in the theoretical literature of transition.

Author Biography

Noha El-Mikawy received her M.A. and her Ph.D. from the University of California in Los Angeles. She was assistant professor of political science at the American University in Cairo from 1991 to 1993. She is currently research fellow at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nurnberg.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(14)
A Background to Egyptian Consensus	15	(26)
Pluralist Consensus Building: Ideological Convergence	41	(28)
Pluralist Consensus Building: Convoking Elections	69	(28)
The Institutionalization of Consensus Building inside Parliament	97	(30)
Conclusion	127	(8)
Appendices	135	(6)
Notes	141	(18)
Index	159