Routledge Handbook on Political Parties in the Middle East and North Africa

<p>This comprehensive <i>Handbook </i>analyses the political parties and party systems across the Middle East and North Africa. Providing an in-depth empirically grounded and novel study of political parties the volume focuses on a region where they have been traditionally and often erroneously dismissed.</p><p>The book is divided into five sections examining:</p><ul> <li>the trajectories of Islamist Salafi leftist liberal nationalist and personalistic parties drawing from different countries;</li> <li>the role political parties play in authoritarian and semi-authoritarian countries;</li> <li>the centrality of political parties in democratic or democratising settings;</li> <li>the relationship between parties and specific social constituencies ranging from women to youth to tribes and sects; and</li> <li>the policy positions of parties on a number of issues including neo-liberal economics identity foreign policy and the role of violence.</li> </ul><p>This wide-ranging and systematic analysis is a key resource for students and scholars interested in party politics democratization and authoritarianism and the Middle East and North Africa.</p><p>Chapter 18 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780429269219</p>