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The Building of Consensus in Egypt's Transition Process

Name: The Building of Consensus in Egypt's Transition Process
Author: Noha El-Mikawy
ISBN: 9789774244988

by Noha El-Mikawy

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In this study, Noha El-Mikawy explores the changes that have been occurring in Egypt's political system over the past thirty years--three very important decades in the country's transition from authoritarian rule to democracy. By focusing on consensus building as analytically central to the transition process, El-Mikawy picks up an original and fruitful vein in the theoretical debate about the politics of transition and democracy. Her account of the inner workings of the country's major political parties and their ideological divisions provides a wealth of detail for the 1980s and early 1990s that is to be found nowhere else. This book is likely to break through the conspiracy of silence hitherto affecting the inclusion of the Egyptian experience as an empirical reference point in the theoretical literature of transition.

About the Author, Noha El-Mikawy

NOHA EL-MIKAWY received her M.A. and her Ph.D. from the University of California in Los Angeles, where she studied the politics of transition. She was assistant professor of political science at the American University in Cairo from 1991 to 1993, during which time she collected most of the material for this book. She is currently research fellow at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nurenberg, doing comparative research on the Arab world and Latin America.

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Specializing in the politics of transition, El-Mikawy (Friedrich Alexander U., Erlangen-N<:u>rnberg) traces the shift from authoritarian to democratic rule in Egypt over the past three decades. She takes consensus building as an analytical compass and looks at the inner workings of the country's major political parties and their ideological divisions with more detail than is found elsewhere. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)