Description: Autocratic Parliament : Power and Legitimacy in Egypt 1, Hardcover by Weipert-fenner, Irene, ISBN 0815636784, ISBN-13 9780815636786, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US When protests erupted in response to the 2010 Egyptian parliament elections that were widely viewed as fraudulent, many wondered. Why now? Voters had never witnessed free and fair elections in the past, so why did these elicit such an outcry? To answer this question, Weipert-Fenner conducted the first study of politics in modern Egypt from a parliamentary perspective. Contrary to the prevailing opinion that autocratic parliaments are meaningless, token institutions, Weipert-Fenner’s long-term analysis shows that parliament can be an indicator, catalyst, and agent of change in an authoritarian regime. Comparing parliamentary dynamics over decades, Weipert-Fenner demonstrates that autocratic parliaments can grow stronger within a given political system. They can also become contentious when norms regarding policies, political actors, and institutions are violated on a large scale and/or at a fast pace. Most importantly, a parliament can even turn against the executive when parliamentary rights are withdrawn or when widely shared norms are violated. These and other recurrent patterns of institutional relations identified in The Autocratic Parliament help explain long spans of stable, yet never stagnant, authoritarian rule in colonial and postcolonial periods alike, as well as the different types of regime change that Egypt has witnessed: those brought about by external intervention, by revolution, or by military coup.
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Book Title: Autocratic Parliament : Power and Legitimacy in Egypt 1866-2011
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Autocratic Parliament : Power and Legitimacy in Egypt, 1866-2011
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Political Process / General, General, World / Middle Eastern, Middle East / Egypt (See Also Ancient / Egypt)
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Irene Weipert-Fenner
Subject Area: Political Science, History
Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
