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When Victory Is Not an Option : Islamist Movements in Arab Politics.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801463891
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: When Victory Is Not an OptionDDC classification:
  • 320.5/57
LOC classification:
  • DS39
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- When Victory is Not an Option -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Partially Political Movements in Semiauthoritarian Systems -- 2. Running to Lose? Elections, Authoritarianism,and Islamist Movements -- 3. Beyond Analogy Mongering: Ideological Movementsand the Debate over the Primacy of Politics -- 4. The Model and the Mother Movement -- 5. The Model in Practice in Four Semiauthoritarian Settings -- 6. Can Islamists Party? : Political Participationand Organizational Change -- 7. Ideological Change: Flirtation and Commitment -- 8. Arab Politics and Societies as They Might Be -- 9. Islamist Parties and Arab Political Systemsas They Are -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: In When Victory Is Not an Option, Nathan J. Brown focuses on Islamist movements in Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, and Palestine, showing that uncertain benefits lead to uncertain changes.
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Intro -- When Victory is Not an Option -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Partially Political Movements in Semiauthoritarian Systems -- 2. Running to Lose? Elections, Authoritarianism,and Islamist Movements -- 3. Beyond Analogy Mongering: Ideological Movementsand the Debate over the Primacy of Politics -- 4. The Model and the Mother Movement -- 5. The Model in Practice in Four Semiauthoritarian Settings -- 6. Can Islamists Party? : Political Participationand Organizational Change -- 7. Ideological Change: Flirtation and Commitment -- 8. Arab Politics and Societies as They Might Be -- 9. Islamist Parties and Arab Political Systemsas They Are -- Bibliography -- Index.

In When Victory Is Not an Option, Nathan J. Brown focuses on Islamist movements in Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, and Palestine, showing that uncertain benefits lead to uncertain changes.

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