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  title info:
    title: Counting Islam
    sub title: religion, class, and elections in Egypt
  name:
    name part: Masoud, Tarek E.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to render it promising terrain for a politics of radical redistribution rather than one of religious conservativism? This book argues that the answer lies not in the political unsophistication of voters, the subordination of economic interests to spiritual ones or the ineptitude of secular and leftist politicians, but in organizational and social factors that shape the opportunities of parties in authoritarian and democratizing systems to reach potential voters. Tracing the performance of Islamists and their rivals in Egyptian elections over the course of almost forty years, this book not only explains why Islamists win elections, but illuminates the possibilities for the emergence in Egypt of the kind of political pluralism that is at the heart of what we expect from democracy.
  note: Tarek Masoud.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-ua---
  subject:
    topic: Islam and politics
    geographic: Egypt
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt)
  subject:
    topic: Arab Spring, 2010-
  subject:
    topic: Elections
    topic: Corrupt practices
    geographic: Egypt
  subject:
    topic: Authoritarianism
    geographic: Egypt
  subject:
    topic: Muslims
    geographic: Egypt
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    geographic: Egypt
    topic: Politics and government
  classification: BP64.E3 .M37 2014
  classification: 324.962/05
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Problems of international politics
  identifier: 9781107009875 (hardback)
  identifier: 1107009871 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780521279116 (paperback)
  identifier: 0521279119 (paperback)
  identifier: 2013040413
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 131025
    record change date: 20151206101148.0
    record identifier: in00003455917