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October 2002, Volume 13, Number 4
Democratization in the Arab World?
- The Decline of Pluralism in Mubarak's Egypt
Jason Brownlee
Since a tenuous political opening a decade ago, the Mubarak regime has systematically asphyxiated democracy in Egypt. - Algeria's Uneasy Peace
William B. Quandt
While many obstacles to democracy gravely mar Algeria's political life, the country's trajectory still affords some grounds for guarded optimism. - Depoliticization in Morocco
Abdeslam M. Maghraoui
Since the 1950s, Morocco has engaged in reforms that have established a relatively open political and economic system, but democracy has not gained much in the bargain. - Stirrings in Saudi Arabia
Jean-François Seznec
Saudi Arabia would seem to exemplify full-blown authoritarianism. Yet there are trends pushing the country toward more open politics. - Emirs and Parliaments in the Gulf
Michael Herb
How well-founded are Western concerns that the nascent parliaments of Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain will be captured by antidemocratic Islamists and lead to the "Talibanization" of the Gulf? - Yemen's Aborted Opening
Jillian Schwedler
While President Ali Abdallah Salih continues to call Yemen an "emerging democracy," it more closely resembles the autocracy of the pre-unification North. -
The Trap of Liberalized Autocracy
Daniel Brumberg
Politics in the Arab Middle East is often a matter of powerholders first liberalizing-and then "deliberalizing"-public life in order to maintain their rule. But this "survival strategy" is a dead end.
Michael Pinto-Duschinsky
Though it is a burning issue in many countries, the question of money and politics is seldom studied on a worldwide scale.
Zimbabwe's Hijacked Election
John Makumbe
Realizing that power would slip from his grasp if he allowed an honest presidential election in 2002, longtime strongman Robert Mugabe resorted to antidemocratic tactics that set a new low in cruelty and dishonesty.
Comparison of Increase in Voters 2000 and 2002 by Constituency
How Muslims View Democracy: Evidence from Central Asia
Richard Rose
What do Muslims think about democracy? Although reliable evidence is hard to come by, survey data from Central Asia open a window on this matter of vital concern in the Muslim world and beyond.
Democracy Under Stress in Thaksin's Thailand
Duncan McCargo
In 1997, Thailand adopted constitutional reforms. Now, five years after the reforms and almost two years into the premiership of Thaksin Shinawatra, we can see the gaps and ironies that the reforms left behind.
Pluralism by Default in Moldova
Lucan A. Way
During the 1990s, politics in the small post-Soviet state of Moldova was more competitive than anyone would have expected. Yet there was less to this surprising pluralism than met the eye.
Dark Days in Belarus
Rodger Potocki
Why did Belarusians return dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka to power in September 2001? Could a better-managed opposition campaign have made a difference?
Post-Election Blues in Ukraine
Nadia Diuk and Myroslava Gongadze
In March 2002, three-fifths of Ukraine's voters chose a party or coalition opposed to the overbearing presidential apparatus of Leonid Kuchma, but the antipresidential forces found themselves frozen out in the new parliament.
Post-Coup Politics in the Gambia
Abdoulaye Saine
The Gambia provides a lesson in how authoritarians can hold votes yet rob their people of the power that the ballot box is supposed to give them.
Books in Review
- Flogging a Dead God?
John Gould
A review of Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism by Joshua Muravchik.
Election Watch
- Brief reports on elections in Bolivia, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Czech Republic, Guinea, and Papua New Guinea.
Documents on Democracy
- Excerpts from a written statement by Egyptian sociologist and prodemocracy activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who was resentenced to seven years of prison on July 29.
- Excerpts from the first-ever Arab Human Development Report, published in July by the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development.
- Excerpts from a July 24 address by UN Development Program Administrator Mark Malloch Brown, delivered at the launching of the 2002 Human Development Report, Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World.
- Excerpts from the inaugural address of Alvaro Uribe Vélez of Colombia, who was sworn in as president on August 7.
- An excerpt from South African president Thabo Mbeki's July 9 speech at the inauguration of the African Union, a pan-African body created to replace the Organization of African Unity.
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