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A Grand Delusion: Democracy and Economic Reform in Egypt

A Grand Delusion: Democracy and Economic Reform in Egypt

Kienle, Eberhard

Hardcover

Series: Library of Modern Middle East Studies

General Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1860644414
ISBN13: 9781860644412
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Apr 12 2001
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.48
Language: English
The recent history and politics of Egypt illuminates the tortuous and often contradictory relationship between liberalization and democracy in Third World countries. Eberhard Kienle argues that the much-vaunted reform and liberalization of Egypt's economy has been partial and selective, far from benefiting everybody. The author looks at how economic reform and liberalization have failed to produce a greater degree of political democracy: notions of elective pluralism, political accountability, clean elections, a genuinely free press, and the containment of police powers, which have turned out to be a great delusion masking restrictions on political participation and civil liberties. This book will shed much light on the dilemma between political and economic reform faced by so many developing countries today.

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