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Abuse of authority
Abuse of power
Activism
Against Democracy
Associationalism
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Author_Amaney Jamal
Authoritarianism
Basic law
Bribery
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Censorship
Citizens (Spanish political party)
Civic engagement
Civil society
Clientelism
Coalition government
Colonialism
Common good
Corruption in Morocco
Criticism of democracy
Decentralization
Democracy
Democratic consolidation
Democratic socialism
Democratization
Distrust
Electoral fraud
Elite
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Externality
Fatah
Good government
Government
Government shutdown in the United States
Hamas
Hunger strike
Institution
Intifada
Islamism
Israeli-occupied territories
Jordan
Left-wing politics
Liberalization
Making Democracy Work
Military occupation
Minarchism
Monopoly on violence
National security
National Union of Popular Forces
New Laws
Non-governmental organization
Oslo Accords
Palestine Liberation Organization
Palestinian law
Palestinian National Authority
Palestinian nationalism
Palestinians
Political corruption
Political party
Political prisoner
Politics
Public sphere
Red tape
Regime
Right-wing politics
Rule of law
Social capital
Sovereignty
Soviet Empire
State-building
Tax
Veto
Wasta
Product details
- ISBN 9780691140995
- Weight: 28g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jul 2009
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Democracy-building efforts from the early 1990s on have funneled billions of dollars into nongovernmental organizations across the developing world, with the U.S. administration of George W. Bush leading the charge since 2001. But are many such "civil society" initiatives fatally flawed? Focusing on the Palestinian West Bank and the Arab world, Barriers to Democracy mounts a powerful challenge to the core tenet of civil society initiatives: namely, that public participation in private associations necessarily yields the sort of civic engagement that, in turn, sustains effective democratic institutions. Such assertions tend to rely on evidence from states that are democratic to begin with. Here, Amaney Jamal investigates the role of civic associations in promoting democratic attitudes and behavioral patterns in contexts that are less than democratic. Jamal argues that, in state-centralized environments, associations can just as easily promote civic qualities vital to authoritarian citizenship--such as support for the regime in power.
Thus, any assessment of the influence of associational life on civic life must take into account political contexts, including the relationships among associations, their leaders, and political institutions. Barriers to Democracy both builds on and critiques the multifaceted literature that has emerged since the mid-1990s on associational life and civil society. By critically examining associational life in the West Bank during the height of the Oslo Peace Process (1993-99), and extending her findings to Morocco, Egypt, and Jordan, Jamal provides vital new insights into a timely issue.
Amaney A. Jamal is assistant professor of politics at Princeton University. Named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005, she is co-principal investigator of the Arab Global Barometer Project, the first systematic cross-national survey gauging democratic attitudes and behaviors in the Arab world.
