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Pacted Democracy in the Middle EastEgypt as Case of Failed Pacting

Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Egypt as Case of Failed Pacting [This chapter discusses the contrasting case of Egypt, which shows the consequences of failed pacting. It argues through historical analysis that Egypt’s structural conditions differed from Tunisia. The Egyptian military evolved through the post-colonial period to become a mammoth institution, while Egyptian civil society never secured the organizational autonomy and sectoral depth that Tunisian civil society enjoyed through its labor movement and professional associations. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood also had a very different experience than Tunisian Ennahda, managing to secure some gains during the Mubarak regime. As a result, the ideological conflict between the Muslim Brotherhood and the “civil state” movement after the Arab Spring could never reach pacting: polarization was extreme, but the Brotherhood was far more powerful than its secularist counterparts, and the military brooded over the entire bargaining process. The breakdown of dialogues and compromises between the two sides precipitated the downfall of the elected Brotherhood government in 2013. The failure of these forces to cohere, alongside worsening geopolitical manipulations by the Arab Spring’s counterrevolutionary states, allowed the military to reset the political game and restore its vision of autocracy.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Pacted Democracy in the Middle EastEgypt as Case of Failed Pacting

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Alaoui, Hicham
Pacted Democracy in the Middle East — May 18, 2022
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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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207 –262
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-99240-8_6
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[This chapter discusses the contrasting case of Egypt, which shows the consequences of failed pacting. It argues through historical analysis that Egypt’s structural conditions differed from Tunisia. The Egyptian military evolved through the post-colonial period to become a mammoth institution, while Egyptian civil society never secured the organizational autonomy and sectoral depth that Tunisian civil society enjoyed through its labor movement and professional associations. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood also had a very different experience than Tunisian Ennahda, managing to secure some gains during the Mubarak regime. As a result, the ideological conflict between the Muslim Brotherhood and the “civil state” movement after the Arab Spring could never reach pacting: polarization was extreme, but the Brotherhood was far more powerful than its secularist counterparts, and the military brooded over the entire bargaining process. The breakdown of dialogues and compromises between the two sides precipitated the downfall of the elected Brotherhood government in 2013. The failure of these forces to cohere, alongside worsening geopolitical manipulations by the Arab Spring’s counterrevolutionary states, allowed the military to reset the political game and restore its vision of autocracy.]

Published: May 18, 2022

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