Democracy in the Arab world : explaining the deficit / edited by Ibrahim Elbadawi and Samir Makdisi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Democracy and Development: Conceptual and Cross Country Perspectives -- 1. Political Culture and the Crisis of Democracy in the Arab World / Abdelwahab El Affendi -- 2. Explaining the Arab Democracy Deficit: The Role of Oil and Conflicts / Ibrahim Elbadawi, Samir Makdisi and Gary Milante -- Part 2: Case studies {u2013} Oil, Conflict and Beyond -- 3. Jordan: Propellers of Autocracy, the Arab Israeli Conflict and Foreign Power Interventions / Taher Kanaan and Joseph Massad -- 4. Lebanon: The Constrained Democracy and its National Impact / Samir Makdisi, Fadia Kiwan and Marcus Marktanner -- 5. Syria: The Underpinnings of Autocracy: Conflict, Oil and the Curtailment of Economic Freedom / Raed Safadi, Laura Munro and Radwan Ziadeh -- Oil Dependent Countries -- 6. The Gulf Region: Beyond Oil and Wars: The Role of History and Geopolitics in Explaining Autocracy / Sami Atallah -- 7. Algeria: Democracy and Development under the Aegis of the 2Authoritarian Bargain3 / Belkacem Laabas and Ammar Bouhouche -- 8. Iraq: Understanding Autocracy: Oil and Conflict in a Historical and Socio-Political Context / Eric Davis and Bassam Yousif -- Nile Valley Countries -- 9. Egypt: Development, Liberalization and the Persistence of Autocracy / Gouda Abdel-Khalek and Mustapha K. Al Sayyid -- 10. Sudan: The Colonial Heritage, Social Polarization and the Democracy Deficit / Ali Abdel Ghadir Ali and Atta El Battahani -- Part 3: Summing Up -- 11. The Democracy Deficit in the Arab World: An Interpretive Synthesis / Ibrahim Elbadawi and Samir Makdisi