Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Purchase Benefits
Looking to rent a book? Rent Contentious Politics in the Middle East [ISBN: 9780813034744] for the semester, quarter, and short term or search our site for other textbooks by Albrecht, Holger. Renting a textbook can save you up to 90% from the cost of buying.
Holger Albrecht is an assistant professor of political science at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction: Contentious Politics, Political Opposition, and Authoritarianism | p. 1 |
Approaching Contentious Politics under Authoritarianism | |
Political Opposition and Arab Authoritarianism: Some Conceptual Remarks | p. 17 |
The Discreet Appeal of Authoritarianism: Political Bargains and Stability of Liberal Authoritarian Regimes in the Middle East | p. 34 |
Political Opposition in the Islamic Tradition: A Historical Perspective | p. 52 |
Political Opposition in Civil Society | |
Show Me the Money! Opposition, Western Funding, and Civil Society in Jordan and Lebanon | p. 75 |
Opposition Alliances under Electoral Authoritarianism: The United National Front for Change in Egypt's 2005 Parliamentary Elections | p. 94 |
The Islamist Quest: Between Opposition, Resistance, and Inclusion | |
Questioning Power, Mobilization, and Strategies of the Islamist Opposition: How Strong is the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan? | p. 117 |
Explaining Shifts in Syria's Islamist Opposition | p. 138 |
Islamist Engagement in Contentious Politics: Kuwait and Bahrain | p. 156 |
Contention and Opposition within Authoritarian Regimes | |
Opposition within the State: Governance in Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia | p. 181 |
Remaking Lebanon after Syria: The Rise and Fall of Proxy Authoritarianism | p. 205 |
Concluding Remarks: Opposition in Support of the Arab State, Revisited | p. 229 |
List of Contributors | p. 243 |
Index | p. 245 |
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.