Title Barriers to democracy : the other side of social capital in Palestine and the Arab world / Amaney A. Jamal

Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 173 pages) Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents Introduction: Democratic outcomes and associational life -- Associational life in the centralized authoritarian context of the West Bank -- The polarization of Palestinian associational life -- Trust, engagement, and democracy -- Beyond Palestine : Morocco, Jordan, and Egypt -- Conclusion: Toward a theory of democratic citizenship in state-centralized nations -- Appendix A: Survey questions and coding of associational members -- Appendix B: Survey questions and coding of general Palestinian population -- Appendix C: Survey questions and coding of general Moroccan population (World Values Survey Questions) 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 dem Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Civil society -- Arab countries Civil society -- West Bank Political participation -- Arab countries Political participation -- West Bank Social capital (Sociology) -- Arab countries Social capital (Sociology) -- West Bank Associations, institutions, etc. -- Arab countries Associations, institutions, etc. -- West Bank Authoritarianism -- Arab countries Authoritarianism -- West Bank SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy. Associations, institutions, etc. Authoritarianism Civil society Political participation Social capital (Sociology) Arab countries West Bank Form Electronic book LC no. 2006030034 ISBN 9781400830503 1400830508 1282935658 9781282935655 9786612935657 6612935650

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