Constitutionalist Contention in Contemporary Egypt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3756284 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mona El-Ghobashy (Barnard College, New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1590-1610 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764208316359 |
| OpenAlex | W2065458237 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 31 |
This article tackles the problem of political-institutional change in undemocratic regimes commonly considered impervious to meaningful political contention. Egypt is one of the contemporary world's most stolid authoritarian regimes, a superpresidential system in which all effective power resides in the executive. It has been governed by uninterrupted emergency law since 1981 and since 1992 has experienced a further process of political deliberalization. Simultaneously, Egyptian politics have witnessed the rise of new political actors: courts, human rights organizations, and professional associations. What explains such manifestations of political dynamism in the midst of political stasis? This article contends that two processes of legal mobilization and internationalization have interacted to produce revived courts, new human rights organizations, and transformed professional unions. This interpretation departs from the emphasis on authoritarian resilience in the Middle East, advancing a more relational conception of state-society relations
Authoritarianism · Constitutionalism · Contentious politics · Corporate governance · Democracy · Dynamism · Economics · Human rights · Interpretation (philosophy) · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social movement · Sociology · State (computer science) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Turkey's Politics and Society
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Law and Courts in Authoritarian Regimes
The Sociology of Constitutions
Challenges for democracy in countries affected by the ‘Arab Spring’
Human Rights Trials in an Era of Democratic Stagnation
Contesting Authoritarianism
Coups and Revolutions
Protest and Regime Change
Veiled Political Questions
Post-Arab Spring
The Syrian Constitution at the end of the civil war
Judicial Activism in Perilous Times
Comparative Sociology, Global History, and Contentious Politics
Litigation and political transformation
Polyarchy
From mobilization to revolution
Revisiting the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil
Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes
Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Democracy and the Market
Structuring Politics
The Helsinki Effect
Unsettling the Authorities
Contention and democracy in Europe, 1650-2000
Egyptian Politics
Legislative Politics in the Arab World
The Power of Human Rights
The Hammamat Declaration
Law versus the State
Passion for Islam
Mobilizing International Norms
Second Elections in Africa
Democratization in the Arab World? The Decline of Pluralism in Mubarak’s Egypt
China's Changing of the Guard
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Waiting for Godot
Regimes Reinventing Themselves
Revolution without Movement, Movement without Revolution
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |