Elites and Arab Politics New Perspectives on Popular Protest

Ian Kelly, "Elites and Arab Politics: New Perspectives on Popular Protest "
English | ISBN: 1138341207 | 2020 | 222 pages | EPUB | 821 KB
This work explains elite behaviour in authoritarian systems and proposes why elites withdraw their support for the incumbent when faced with popular uprisings. Building upon foundations drawn from institutional authoritarianism and synthesised with local context from the substantial scholarship on the Middle East and North Africa, the book argues that the elite supporting autocrats come from three distinct cadres: the military, the single-party and the personalist.