The Palestinian Regime: A Partial Democracy - Hardcover

Ghanem, As'ad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1902210689 ISBN 13: 9781902210681

Publisher: Sussex Academic Press, 2001

Synopsis

This text examines the new political order that emerged in the West Bank and Gaza after the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) in 1994. It demonstrates that two political systems exist in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: one which is active, undemocratic and dominant; and one which is passive, democratic and overshadowed by the first. As'ad Ghanem demonstrates how Yassir Arafat has created an authoritarian regime and how he controls this through the concentration of power, intimidation and bribery, after having shoved aside the forces that had shaped the emerging political order that had come into being before the establishment of the PNA. This order, which incorporated political pluralism, struggle, protest on behalf of change, and voluntary organisations that were the first sign of the appearance of a Palestinian civil society, functions as a weak shadow of Arafat's centralized regime.

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Review:

"A valuable contribution to the debate." --"Middle East Journal"

A valuable contribution to the debate. "Middle East Journal""

Ghanem s thesis is persuasive and coherently presented. "Middle Eastern Studies""

A very useful examination of the factors shaping Palestinian political development. "Journal of Palestine Studies""

An excellent, scholarly volume a first-rate study of the problems of democratization and the requirements for its success. "Choice""

"A valuable contribution to the debate." --Middle East Journal

"Ghanem's thesis is persuasive and coherently presented." --Middle Eastern Studies

"A very useful examination of the factors shaping Palestinian political development." --Journal of Palestine Studies

"An excellent, scholarly volume - a first-rate study of the problems of democratization and the requirements for its success." --Choice

About the Author:

As'ad Ghanem is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Haifa, and a Researcher at the Institute for Peace at the Jewish-Arab Center for Peace, Givat-Haviva.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1902210689
• ISBN 13: 9781902210681
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280