Russell Lucas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4371541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Russell Lucas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Russell |
| FAMILY NAME | Lucas |
| SIGNATURE | LUCAS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9081-1549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Putting the ‘Public’ Back into Middle East Public Opinion Research: Evidence from Qatar
Survey research on public opinion in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has dramatically increased in both quantity and quality over the past generation. However, this has not been matched by discussion about the intellectual assumptions of public opinion research in the region as it expands into non-Western and/or non-democratic settings. To remedy this deficiency, we begin this type of investigation by assessing the resonance of public opi…
Public attitudes on peace with Israel in Jordanian politics
Twenty-five years after the Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty hopes for a warm process of normalization and the development of a ‘New Middle East’ based on trade and trust died long ago. The peace tre
Why Do You Ask?’ The Nature and Impacts of Attitudes towards Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab World
For the first time in an Arab country, this article examines attitudes toward public opinion surveys and their effects on survey-taking behavior. The study uses original survey data from Qatar, the diverse population of which permits comparisons across cultural–geographical groupings within a single, non-democratic polity. The authors find that Qatari and expatriate Arabs hold positive views of surveys, both in absolute terms and relative to indi…
The wages of oil: Parliaments and economic development in Kuwait and the UAE
Michael Herb’s study of Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with reference to the rest of the Gulf monarchies and rent-rich states elsewhere, refutes the simplistic resource curse argument t
Protests by the young and digitally restless: The means, motives, and opportunities of anti-government demonstrations
Inspired by the recent wave of global protests, this paper seeks to empirically investigate the role and interaction of a burgeoning young population and the penetration of information and communications technology (ICT) in explaining the onset and diffusion of anti-government demonstrations. Employing a cross-national global analysis between the years 1995 and 2011, we find that youth bulges and ICT affect protest activities in a more complicate…
Monarchies and Protests in the Arab Uprisings: Path Dependencies or Political Opportunities
This article places the “monarchy-republic gap” into a larger theoretical context of shifting paradigms of research to explain why monarchies in the Gulf faced fewer protests than other regimes in the Middle East in 2011. In so doing this article synthesizes the New Institutionalism focus on stability with the emphasis of social movement theory on changing patterns of political contention in order to reconceptualize the notion of regime in a way …
Rethinking the Monarchy–Republic Gap in the Middle East
In the wake of the ongoing Arab Spring, one of the many themes that garnered attention by scholars and policy analysts is the empirical fact that, of the autocratic regimes that have been overthrow
Rules and Tools of Succession in the Gulf Monarchies
This article surveys recent events and literature on succession in the six Arab Gulf monarchies, synthesizing the varied country experiences into a new thematic interpretation. It argues that succession rules are increasingly being enshrined in textual — if not constitutional — institutional architectures. The rationalization of succession mechanisms speaks to the growing institutionalization of monarchical rule. There is also a growing influence…
Debating Arabic on Al-Jazeera: Endangerment and Identity in Divergent Discourses
Eight debates on Al-Jazeera specifically, on the Arabic language, highlight the divergent and convergent discourses about the status of the language and its use today in the Arab world. All address the issue of the weakness of the Arabic language, both internally between formal and dialect, and externally in the face of globalizing English. The participants also link the Arabic language to issues of identity and who the Arabs ‘are’ during this er…
Side Effects of Regime Building in Jordan: The State and the Nation
Both the September 1970 Jordanian ‘civil war’ and the signing of the Jordanian National Charter in 1991 mark critical junctures in the processes of state, regime, and nation building in the kingdom. The subduing of the fedayeen in 1970–71 eliminated the final significant challenger to the sovereignty of the Jordanian state. The National Charter brought historic opposition groups together to grant legitimacy to the monarchical regime. Both the sol…
Arab Muslim Attitudes Toward the West: Cultural, Social, and Political Explanations
We utilize pooled data from Zogby International's 2002 Zogby, James. 2002. What Arabs Think: Values Beliefs and Concerns, Utica NY: Zogby International. [Google Scholar] Arab Values Survey (carried out in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and UAE) in order to test for “cultural,” “social” and/or international “political” influences on Arab Muslim attitudes toward “Western” countries (Canada, France, Germany, UK, and USA). We …
Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen
Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen. By Jillian Schwedler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 252p. $80.00. Many attribute the failure of democratization in the Islamic world to the existence of antidemocratic Islamist movements. Why should democratization move forward when the main beneficiaries would allow for “one person, one vote, one time”? Jillian Schwedler in Faith in Moderation refutes this common argument …
Determinants of Arab Public Opinion on Foreign Relations
Using Zogby International polling data from seven different Arab nations (Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) this paper offers a societal-level quantitative analysis (N=91 dyads) of the determinants of Arab public opinion toward 13 different non-Arab countries (Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States). We first…
Institutions and the Politics of Survival in Jordan: Domestic Responses to External Challenges, 1988-2001
Jordan: The Death of Normalization with Israel
Many would count Jordanian-Israeli normalization among the victims of the new intifada. Three factors, however, had brought about the death of normalization in Jordan well before October 2000: Israeli intransigence, a regime crackdown on the opposition, and the failure of economic benefits to buy popular support. King Abdullah has inherited a situation where he has turned towards the US rather than Israel as his major foreign policy partner
Monarchical Authoritarianism: Survival and Political Liberalization in a Middle Eastern Regime Type
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Normalization' and 'Anti-Normalization' in Jordan: The Public Debate
Press laws as a survival strategy in Jordan, 1989–99
(2003). Press laws as a survival strategy in Jordan, 1989–99. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 81-98
Deliberalization in Jordan
In 1989, with the first Palestinian intifada (uprising) raging just across the Jordan River in the West Bank, domestic discontent spilling into his own streets, and his country's finances in tatters, Jordan's King Hussein (r. 1953-99) began taking a series of extraordinary steps toward political opening. He ended repression, called new elections to replace the National Assembly that he had dissolved in 1988, and forged a national pact that put Jo…
Determinants of Arab Public Opinion on Foreign Relations
Using Zogby International polling data from seven different Arab nations (Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) this paper offers a societal-level quantitative analysis (N=91 dyads) of the determinants of Arab public opinion toward 13 different non-Arab countries (Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States). We first…
Monarchical Authoritarianism: Survival and Political Liberalization in a Middle Eastern Regime Type
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Arab Muslim Attitudes Toward the West: Cultural, Social, and Political Explanations
We utilize pooled data from Zogby International's 2002 Zogby, James. 2002. What Arabs Think: Values Beliefs and Concerns, Utica NY: Zogby International. [Google Scholar] Arab Values Survey (carried out in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and UAE) in order to test for “cultural,” “social” and/or international “political” influences on Arab Muslim attitudes toward “Western” countries (Canada, France, Germany, UK, and USA). We …
Deliberalization in Jordan
In 1989, with the first Palestinian intifada (uprising) raging just across the Jordan River in the West Bank, domestic discontent spilling into his own streets, and his country's finances in tatters, Jordan's King Hussein (r. 1953-99) began taking a series of extraordinary steps toward political opening. He ended repression, called new elections to replace the National Assembly that he had dissolved in 1988, and forged a national pact that put Jo…
Why Do You Ask?’ The Nature and Impacts of Attitudes towards Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab World
For the first time in an Arab country, this article examines attitudes toward public opinion surveys and their effects on survey-taking behavior. The study uses original survey data from Qatar, the diverse population of which permits comparisons across cultural–geographical groupings within a single, non-democratic polity. The authors find that Qatari and expatriate Arabs hold positive views of surveys, both in absolute terms and relative to indi…
Press laws as a survival strategy in Jordan, 1989–99
(2003). Press laws as a survival strategy in Jordan, 1989–99. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 81-98
Debating Arabic on Al-Jazeera: Endangerment and Identity in Divergent Discourses
Eight debates on Al-Jazeera specifically, on the Arabic language, highlight the divergent and convergent discourses about the status of the language and its use today in the Arab world. All address the issue of the weakness of the Arabic language, both internally between formal and dialect, and externally in the face of globalizing English. The participants also link the Arabic language to issues of identity and who the Arabs ‘are’ during this er…
Normalization' and 'Anti-Normalization' in Jordan: The Public Debate
Side Effects of Regime Building in Jordan: The State and the Nation
Both the September 1970 Jordanian ‘civil war’ and the signing of the Jordanian National Charter in 1991 mark critical junctures in the processes of state, regime, and nation building in the kingdom. The subduing of the fedayeen in 1970–71 eliminated the final significant challenger to the sovereignty of the Jordanian state. The National Charter brought historic opposition groups together to grant legitimacy to the monarchical regime. Both the sol…
Public attitudes on peace with Israel in Jordanian politics
Twenty-five years after the Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty hopes for a warm process of normalization and the development of a ‘New Middle East’ based on trade and trust died long ago. The peace tre
Normalization' and 'Anti-Normalization' in Jordan: The Public Debate
Press laws as a survival strategy in Jordan, 1989–99
(2003). Press laws as a survival strategy in Jordan, 1989–99. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 81-98
Deliberalization in Jordan
In 1989, with the first Palestinian intifada (uprising) raging just across the Jordan River in the West Bank, domestic discontent spilling into his own streets, and his country's finances in tatters, Jordan's King Hussein (r. 1953-99) began taking a series of extraordinary steps toward political opening. He ended repression, called new elections to replace the National Assembly that he had dissolved in 1988, and forged a national pact that put Jo…
Jordan: The Death of Normalization with Israel
Many would count Jordanian-Israeli normalization among the victims of the new intifada. Three factors, however, had brought about the death of normalization in Jordan well before October 2000: Israeli intransigence, a regime crackdown on the opposition, and the failure of economic benefits to buy popular support. King Abdullah has inherited a situation where he has turned towards the US rather than Israel as his major foreign policy partner
Monarchical Authoritarianism: Survival and Political Liberalization in a Middle Eastern Regime Type
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Institutions and the Politics of Survival in Jordan: Domestic Responses to External Challenges, 1988-2001
Determinants of Arab Public Opinion on Foreign Relations
Using Zogby International polling data from seven different Arab nations (Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) this paper offers a societal-level quantitative analysis (N=91 dyads) of the determinants of Arab public opinion toward 13 different non-Arab countries (Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States). We first…
Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen
Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen. By Jillian Schwedler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 252p. $80.00. Many attribute the failure of democratization in the Islamic world to the existence of antidemocratic Islamist movements. Why should democratization move forward when the main beneficiaries would allow for “one person, one vote, one time”? Jillian Schwedler in Faith in Moderation refutes this common argument …
Side Effects of Regime Building in Jordan: The State and the Nation
Both the September 1970 Jordanian ‘civil war’ and the signing of the Jordanian National Charter in 1991 mark critical junctures in the processes of state, regime, and nation building in the kingdom. The subduing of the fedayeen in 1970–71 eliminated the final significant challenger to the sovereignty of the Jordanian state. The National Charter brought historic opposition groups together to grant legitimacy to the monarchical regime. Both the sol…
Arab Muslim Attitudes Toward the West: Cultural, Social, and Political Explanations
We utilize pooled data from Zogby International's 2002 Zogby, James. 2002. What Arabs Think: Values Beliefs and Concerns, Utica NY: Zogby International. [Google Scholar] Arab Values Survey (carried out in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and UAE) in order to test for “cultural,” “social” and/or international “political” influences on Arab Muslim attitudes toward “Western” countries (Canada, France, Germany, UK, and USA). We …
Rules and Tools of Succession in the Gulf Monarchies
This article surveys recent events and literature on succession in the six Arab Gulf monarchies, synthesizing the varied country experiences into a new thematic interpretation. It argues that succession rules are increasingly being enshrined in textual — if not constitutional — institutional architectures. The rationalization of succession mechanisms speaks to the growing institutionalization of monarchical rule. There is also a growing influence…
Debating Arabic on Al-Jazeera: Endangerment and Identity in Divergent Discourses
Eight debates on Al-Jazeera specifically, on the Arabic language, highlight the divergent and convergent discourses about the status of the language and its use today in the Arab world. All address the issue of the weakness of the Arabic language, both internally between formal and dialect, and externally in the face of globalizing English. The participants also link the Arabic language to issues of identity and who the Arabs ‘are’ during this er…
Protests by the young and digitally restless: The means, motives, and opportunities of anti-government demonstrations
Inspired by the recent wave of global protests, this paper seeks to empirically investigate the role and interaction of a burgeoning young population and the penetration of information and communications technology (ICT) in explaining the onset and diffusion of anti-government demonstrations. Employing a cross-national global analysis between the years 1995 and 2011, we find that youth bulges and ICT affect protest activities in a more complicate…
Monarchies and Protests in the Arab Uprisings: Path Dependencies or Political Opportunities
This article places the “monarchy-republic gap” into a larger theoretical context of shifting paradigms of research to explain why monarchies in the Gulf faced fewer protests than other regimes in the Middle East in 2011. In so doing this article synthesizes the New Institutionalism focus on stability with the emphasis of social movement theory on changing patterns of political contention in order to reconceptualize the notion of regime in a way …
Rethinking the Monarchy–Republic Gap in the Middle East
In the wake of the ongoing Arab Spring, one of the many themes that garnered attention by scholars and policy analysts is the empirical fact that, of the autocratic regimes that have been overthrow
The wages of oil: Parliaments and economic development in Kuwait and the UAE
Michael Herb’s study of Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with reference to the rest of the Gulf monarchies and rent-rich states elsewhere, refutes the simplistic resource curse argument t
Public attitudes on peace with Israel in Jordanian politics
Twenty-five years after the Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty hopes for a warm process of normalization and the development of a ‘New Middle East’ based on trade and trust died long ago. The peace tre
Why Do You Ask?’ The Nature and Impacts of Attitudes towards Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab World
For the first time in an Arab country, this article examines attitudes toward public opinion surveys and their effects on survey-taking behavior. The study uses original survey data from Qatar, the diverse population of which permits comparisons across cultural–geographical groupings within a single, non-democratic polity. The authors find that Qatari and expatriate Arabs hold positive views of surveys, both in absolute terms and relative to indi…
Putting the ‘Public’ Back into Middle East Public Opinion Research: Evidence from Qatar
Survey research on public opinion in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has dramatically increased in both quantity and quality over the past generation. However, this has not been matched by discussion about the intellectual assumptions of public opinion research in the region as it expands into non-Western and/or non-democratic settings. To remedy this deficiency, we begin this type of investigation by assessing the resonance of public opi…
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