Federalism and the Euro-Polity

Since a tenuous political opening a decade ago, the Mubarak regime has systematically asphyxiated democracy in Egypt.

Constitution writers in ethnically or otherwise divided countries should focus on designing a system of power-sharing rules and institutions. Studies by political scientists point to a set of basic recommendations…

The failure of the elections has been partly mitigated by the hope of judicial review of electoral malfeasance, the stabilizing ingenuity of ethno-regional power-sharing, and renewed national discussions of electoral…