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1 online resource (190 pages) |
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Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the Arab World; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Note to the Reader; Chapter One: Introduction: Democratic Outcomes and Associational Life; Chapter Two: Associational Life in the Centralized Authoritarian Context of the West Bank; Chapter Three: The Polarization of Palestinian Associational Life; Chapter Four: Trust, Engagement, and Democracy; Chapter Five: Beyond Palestine: Morocco, Jordan, and Egypt; Chapter Six: Conclusion: Toward a Theory of Democratic Citizenship in State-Centralized Nations; Appendixes |
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| Summary |
Democracy-building efforts from the early 1990s on have funneled billions of dollars into nongovernmental organizations across the developing world, with the U.S. administration of George W. Bush leading the charge since 2001. But are many such "civil society" initiatives fatally flawed? Focusing on the Palestinian West Bank and the Arab world, Barriers to Democracy mounts a powerful challenge to the core tenet of civil society initiatives: namely, that public participation in private associations necessarily yields the sort of civic engagement that, in turn, sustains effective democratic inst |
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Civil society -- Arab countries
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Civil society -- West Bank
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Political participation -- Arab countries
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Political participation -- West Bank
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Social capital (Sociology) -- Arab countries
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Social capital (Sociology) -- West Bank
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Associations, institutions, etc. -- Arab countries
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Associations, institutions, etc. -- West Bank
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Authoritarianism -- Arab countries
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Authoritarianism -- West Bank
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Associations, institutions, etc.
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Authoritarianism
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Civil society
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Political participation
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Social capital (Sociology)
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Arab countries
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West Bank
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400830503 |
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1400830508 |
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