Political Parties and Democracy

Political Parties and Democracy: Volume V: The Arab World is the fifth volume in this five-volume set. It offers clearly written up-to-date coverage of the political parties of this diverse region from the unique perspective of distinguished indigenous scholars who have lived the truths they tell and thus write with unique breadth depth and scope. Presented in two parts this volume overviews parties in the Arab states then discusses the realities on the ground in Egypt Lebanon Mauritania Morocco Tunisia and Algeria. This is followed by two chapters on political parties in Israel and Turkey neighboring states with important Arab political organizations. Throughout contributors explore the relationship between political parties and democracy (or democratization) in their respective nations providing necessary historical socioeconomic and institutional context and clarifying the balance of power among partiesand between them and competing agencies of powertoday.