Yemen's democratic experiment in regional perspective
Subtitle: patronage and pluralized authoritarianism
By: Sarah Phillips.
Contributors: Tajammuʻ al-Yamanī lil-Iṣlāḥ.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Democracy -- Yemen (Republic); Islam and politics -- Yemen (Republic); Opposition (Political science) -- Yemen (Republic); Yemen (Republic) -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Yemen's experiment with democracy; title: Pluralized authoritarianism and the Yemeni patronage system; title: Resilience and reform in the Arab Middle East; title: The "gray zone"; title: A brief history of the Republic of Yemen : electoral politics, war, and political retraction; title: Government institutions military and security apparatus; title: Tribalism in a weak state tribal autonomy; title: Non-state actors and political reform : civil society, activists and political parties; title: Political Islamists and the Islah Party; title: Islah as opposition standing under the tree and waiting for the fruit to fall; title: Conclusion : coercion, managed pluralism and legitimacy; title: political Islam.