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dc.contributor.advisorWuthrich, Michael
dc.contributor.authorAdou, Baba Salem
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-02T23:29:33Z
dc.date.available2015-12-02T23:29:33Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-31
dc.date.submitted2015
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14000
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/19007
dc.description.abstractArab Spring, or the series of uprisings that swept the Middle East and North Africa in early 2011, has raised hopes that the region is finally catching up with democracy. The fall of four long-established authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, respectively, shook the foundations of the ‘Arab exceptionalism’ thesis which dominated much of the literature on the region. Four years after the Arab Spring, however, the prospects of democratization in the region appear to be dim; out of the four regime changes in Libya, Yemen, Egypt and Tunisia, only the latter seems to be leading a relatively successful democratic transition. This paper attempts to address the variations witnessed in the four cases’ post-Arab Spring experiences. Analyzing the four countries against the backdrop of their institutional contexts, I argue that institutional legacies of previous regime type could account for the success of democracy in Tunisia and its failure in the rest of the cases. This paper also controls for socioeconomic conditions and the role of leadership in each country.
dc.format.extent90 pages
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Kansas
dc.rightsCopyright held by the author.
dc.subjectPolitical Science
dc.subjectRegional studies
dc.subjectMiddle Eastern studies
dc.subjectArab Spring
dc.subjectauthoritarian regimes
dc.subjectdemocracy
dc.subjectinstitutions
dc.subjectLibya; Egypt; Yemen; Tunisia
dc.subjectprevious regime
dc.titleAncien Régime: Legacies of Previous Authoritarian Regimes and the Struggle for Democratization in the Arab World
dc.typeThesis
dc.contributor.cmtememberKennedy, John J
dc.contributor.cmtememberAddoun, Yacine D
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineGlobal and International Studies, Center for
dc.thesis.degreeLevelM.A.
dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccess


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