Abstract
Authoritarianism has been the modal form of governance in the Middle East; but the very different forms it has taken allows us to explore the variation in kinds of authoritarian regimes.This chapter takes the cases of Egypt and Syria to explore the causes and outcomes of variation in the Middle East and North Africa’s (MENA) authoritarian republics over time and across country contexts.The analysis takes a historical sociology neo-Weberian approach, borrowing notably from Michael Mann’s dissection of the dimensions of regime building and also viewing state trajectories as the outcomes of interactions between the agency of regime builders and structural factors such as inherited regional culture and global political economy.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Research handbook on authoritarianism |
| Editors | Natasha Lindstaedt, Jeroen J.J. Van den Bosch |
| Place of Publication | Cheltenham |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd |
| Chapter | 23 |
| Pages | 370-385 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781802204827 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781802204810 |
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| Publication status | Published - 14 Mar 2024 |
Keywords
- Authoritarian republics
- Egypt
- Syria
- Middle East
- Populism
- Post-populism