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Title: Rethinking%20Arab%20Democratic%20Transitions


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Arab Democratic Transitions?
  • Rethinking Arab Democratic Transitions
  • Democratic Gains
  • Challenges
  • 1- Political Islam
  • 2- Gender
  • 3- Alternation of Power
  • 4- Human rights

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Rethinking Arab Transitions
  • Limitations of Theory
  • Peculiarities
  • Exceptionalism

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Democratic Gains
  • Frequency
  • close to 50 elections b/w 1989-1999 ? 5 per year
  • Participation
  • voter turnout 80
  • voting age lowered to 18 in many Arab states
  • Contestation
  • multiparty elections
  • opposition field candidates
  • Habituation
  • voting rights exercised
  • voter rolls
  • regularity of voting

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Challenges
  • 1- Political Islam
  • Caveats
  • Explaining the impasse
  • Islamizing democracy? Democratizing Islam?
  • PI in the Democratic Process

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Islamic Action Front
  • IAF (Jordan) ? approximates a political party
  • Cadres ? mostly civil not religious or both
  • Democratic procedures inside front
  • Alternation of leadership
  • Broad consultation, deliberation aggregation of
    political preferences

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Challenges
  • 2- Gender
  • Inclusive Politics
  • Away from state feminism
  • Women and the electoral process

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Jordanian National Forum for Women -- JNFW
  • Objectives spreading awareness among Jordanian
    women of the content of the national strategy
    which was ratified in 1993 and which aims to
    improve womens status, involve them in the
    national development ..., and promote their legal
    status and increase their participation in
    decision-making

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The Jordanian National Committee for Women
  • To amend legislation obstructing womens
    participation in development and enacting new
    legislations and policiesemphasizingtheir full
    participation.
  • To create public awareness regarding the
    importance of womens roles and their status in
    the progress the Jordanian society.
  • To increase womens participation in development
    and to create job opportunities for them ...

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Jordanian Constitution
  • Chapter Two
  • Rights and duties of Jordanians
  • I. Jordanians shall be equal before the law.
    There shall be no discrimination between them as
    regards their rights and duties on grounds of
    race, language or religion.

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  • Since elections of 1997, more women are lobbying
    for a quota system ? reach parliament in 2001
  • 20 quota in the LHP (16 seats of the 80-seat
    parliament)
  • Queen Noor I would prefer to have the various
    political parties elect women to their high
    cadres and this may have women represent their
    parties in parliament.

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Women in Egypt's Parliament
  • Under-represented
  • Women activists reconsidering quota system
  • Tokenism within government/opposition
  • Females less than 3 of candidates in elections

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