Democratization in the Arab World?: The Decline of Pluralism in Mubarak’s Egypt

Issue Date October 2002
Volume 13
Issue 4
Page Numbers 6-14
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Since a tenuous political opening a decade ago, the Mubarak regime has systematically asphyxiated democracy in Egypt.

About the Author

Jason Brownlee is professor of government at the University of Texas, Austin, and the author of Authoritarianism in an Age of Democratization (2007).

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