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Pacted Democracy in the Middle EastConclusion

Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Conclusion [This concluding chapter summarizes the book’s core contributions and findings. It reviews why pacting succeeded in Tunisia but failed in Egypt, emphasizing again that pacting can emerge as a viable solution to religious conflicts when polarization, parity, and normative diversity force competing elites to strike pragmatic bargains to survive. It also teases out critical implications from these findings. It throws further doubt upon old arguments about the exceptionally authoritarian “nature” of the Arab world, and also undercuts the insistence by some that democracy in Muslim countries requires overarching resolution of religious and cultural disputes first. It likewise rebuffs the old thesis that secularism and secularization must occur prior to democratic transitions. It next shows how pacted democratization could yet transform Middle East, using new cases like Sudan and Algeria to show how bargaining can overcome intractable stalemates between military powerholders and civil society. The monarchies, too, offer another testing ground for pacting. Finally, it demonstrates a lasting ramification of the study for scholars of religion: political changes can actually drive theological shifts in the content of Islamic doctrine, something seen in Tunisia’s Ennahda movement since the mid-2010s.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Pacted Democracy in the Middle EastConclusion

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Alaoui, Hicham
Pacted Democracy in the Middle East — May 18, 2022
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
ISBN
978-3-030-99239-2
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263 –286
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-99240-8_7
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[This concluding chapter summarizes the book’s core contributions and findings. It reviews why pacting succeeded in Tunisia but failed in Egypt, emphasizing again that pacting can emerge as a viable solution to religious conflicts when polarization, parity, and normative diversity force competing elites to strike pragmatic bargains to survive. It also teases out critical implications from these findings. It throws further doubt upon old arguments about the exceptionally authoritarian “nature” of the Arab world, and also undercuts the insistence by some that democracy in Muslim countries requires overarching resolution of religious and cultural disputes first. It likewise rebuffs the old thesis that secularism and secularization must occur prior to democratic transitions. It next shows how pacted democratization could yet transform Middle East, using new cases like Sudan and Algeria to show how bargaining can overcome intractable stalemates between military powerholders and civil society. The monarchies, too, offer another testing ground for pacting. Finally, it demonstrates a lasting ramification of the study for scholars of religion: political changes can actually drive theological shifts in the content of Islamic doctrine, something seen in Tunisia’s Ennahda movement since the mid-2010s.]

Published: May 18, 2022

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