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Record Nr.

UNINA9910159007503321

Titolo

Values, political action, and change in the Middle East and the Arab Spring / / edited by Mansoor Moaddel, Michele J. Gelfand

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-19-026911-1

0-19-063392-1

0-19-026910-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 pages)

Disciplina

306.0917/4927

Soggetti

Social values - Arab countries

Social change - Arab countries

Arab Spring, 2010-

Protest movements - Arab countries

Electronic books.

Arab countries Politics and government 21st century

Arab countries Social conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The central theme of this volume is change; its causes, consequences, and processes. The authors use diverse frameworks to analyze nationally representative sample data from Middle Eastern and North African countries. Their objectives are (a) to understand cross-national variation and trends in values and perceptions, and the extent to which this variation is affected by age; (b) to assess the empirical correlates of different modalities of change, lay perspectives on development and morality as well as people’s varying understanding of the meanings of traditional and modern family; (c) to employ social-scientific perspective in explaining cross-national and individual variation in political engagement, participations in the movement of the Arab Spring, varying political outcomes in Egypt and Tunisia, and the failure of revolutionary movements and the predictors of autocratic recidivism;



and (d) to address the methodological issues and challenges in carrying out empirical research in the Middle East and North Africa.