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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Comparative electoral politics and the quest for representation in West Asia and North Africa
  name:
    name part: Ashwarya, Sujata
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Alam, Mujib
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxviii, 456 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: This volume examines how elections and reform across West Asia and North Africa function less as routes to alternation than as instruments of control. Anchored by an integrative introduction and a concluding synthesis, it gathers original studies showing how rules, parties, patronage, and civic mobilisation organise political life. Contributors trace how incumbents bend law and voting cycles through pliant oversight to simulate responsiveness while weakening opponents, as turnout declines and protest recurs. In some polities electoral forms recede altogether: ballots are suspended, assemblies fall silent, and authority is channelled through appointments and managed consultation. Israel appears as a democratic outlier under a highly proportional electoral system, a foil to the region's managed pluralism and electoral authoritarianism. Libya is conceptualised as non-electoral fragmented authoritarianism, where institutional absence hardens into elite bargains and armed networks. Organised thematically, rather than by country, the volume shows how electoral ritual and performance reshape representation and legitimacy across the region.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Between Contestation and Control: Electoral Politics and the Quest for Representation in West Asia and North Africa -- Part I: Electoral Engineering and Regime Legitimation -- Chapter 2: The Illusion of Reform: Electoral Politics and Monarchical Power in Jordan -- Chapter 3: Egypt's Electoral Politics Post-2011: Legitimacy and Authoritarian Control -- Chapter 4: Parliamentary Elections and the Road to Reform in Post-Arab Spring Morocco -- Chapter 5: Saudi Arabia: Electoral Formalism and the Limits of Citizen Participation under Absolute Monarchy -- Part II: Opposition Dynamics and Constrained Pluralism -- Chapter 6: Elections and Executive Power in Kuwait's Monarchy: Reversal of Opposition Gains, 2012-2024 -- Chapter 7: Türkiye's 2023 Elections: Opposition Setbacks and Future Prospects -- Chapter 8: Authoritarian Governance and Elections in the UAE and Bahrain: A Comparative Analysis -- Chapter 9: The Illusion of Consensus: Electoral Politics and the Challenge of Governance in Tunisia -- Part III: Institutional Fragility and Contested Sovereignty -- Chapter 10: The Question of People's Representation in Iran: Negotiating Democracy with 'Divinity' -- Chapter 11: Between Ballots and Bullets: The Political Meaning of Libya's Missing Elections -- Chapter 12: Contesting Representation: Hamas and Electoral Politics in a Divided Palestine -- Chapter 13: Lebanese Electoral Politics: Consociationalism and its Limitations -- Chapter 14: Elections and Representation in Post-Saddam Iraq: Institutional Fragility and Sectarian Politics -- Part IV: Electoral Engagement and Limits of Participation -- Chapter 15: Political Participation in Qatar: From Municipal Elections to the Shura Council -- Chapter 16: Divided We Stand: The Electoral System and Voter Turnout in Israel, 2019-2022 -- Chapter 17: Elections Without Alternation in Algeria: Protest Cycles and FLN Continuity under Military Guardianship -- Chapter 18: Conclusion.
  note: Sujata Ashwarya, Mujib Alam, editors.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    geographic code: aw-----
    geographic code: ff-----
  subject:
    topic: Elections
    geographic: Middle East
  subject:
    topic: Elections
    geographic: Africa, North
  subject:
    topic: Representative government and representation
    geographic: Middle East
  subject:
    topic: Representative government and representation
    geographic: Africa, North
  subject:
    geographic: Africa, North
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    geographic: Middle East
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Comparative government
  subject:
    topic: Élections
    geographic: Afrique du Nord
  subject:
    geographic: Moyen-Orient
    topic: Politique et gouvernement
  classification: JQ1758.A95 C65 2026
  classification: 324.956
  identifier: 9789819537044 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9819537045
  identifier: 9789819537037
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: GW5XE
    record creation date: 260317
    record change date: 20260426011134.1
    record identifier: in00005779695
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng