أثر التنمية الاقتصادية على التحول الديمقراطي في الدول العربية 2000-2008 : دراسة حالات (المغرب، و تونس، و مصر، و الأردن، و السعودية، و السودان)‎

Abstract EN

This study aims at revealing the correlation between economic development and democratic transition in the examined Arab countries.

This study identified the theories which studied the relationship between economic development and democratic transition by analyzing the indicators of economic development, those of democratic transition and the relationship between them.

Person's correlation coefficient, which links between the indicators of economic development as an independent variable and those of democratic transition as a dependent variable, was used.

The study is based on a hypothesis which states that there is a positive correlation between the indicators of economic development and those of democratic transition.

The researchers followed the scientific approach which combines both theoretical analysis and quantitative analysis, relying on historical and comparative approach and analytic statistics.

This study concluded that the indicators of economic development were not reflected on those of political and democratic transition ones.

The examined Arab states were not interested in or concerned about the issues of democracy and political freedom in the process of economic development.

This is inconsistent with the researchers' hypothesis, which states that there is a positive correlation between the indicators of economic development and those of democratic transition.