Temptations of power : Islamists and illiberal democracy in a new Middle East / / Shadi Hamid

• Autore: Hamid Shadi
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 324.2/1820956
• Soggetto topico: Islam and politics; Islamic fundamentalism; Democracy - Middle East - History - 21st century; Revolutions - Middle East - History - 21st century
• Soggetto geografico: Middle East Politics and government 21st century
• Classificazione: HIS026000POL011000REL037000
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Islamists in Transition; 2. Can Repression Force Islamist Moderation?; 3. The Promise of Politics; 4. The Turn to Repression; 5. Learning to Lose; 6. Chronicle of a Coup Foretold; 7. Illiberal Democrats; 8. A Tunisian Exception?; 9. The Past and Future of Political Islam; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the ""end of history."" The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy--the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere have such considerations become more relevant than in the Middle East, where the uprisings of 2011 swept the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups to power. In Temptations of Power, Shadi Hamid draws on hundreds of interviews with leaders an
• Titolo autorizzato: Temptations of power
• ISBN: 0-19-931406-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789017303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II