Elections and distributive politics in Mubarak's Egypt /
"Despite its authoritarian political structure, Egypt's government has held competitive, multi-party parliamentary elections for more than 30 years. This book argues that, rather than undermining the durability of the Mubarak regime, competitive parliamentary elections ease important forms...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Political and economic change since 1952
- Elections and elite management
- The politics of infrastructure provision
- Electoral budget cycles and economic opportunism
- Vote buying, turnout, and spoiled ballots
- Elections and elite corruption
- Elections and the Muslim brotherhood
- Liberal intellectuals and the demand for democratic change
- Foreign pressure and institutional change
- Egypt in comparative perspective