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Individual preferences for democracy in the Arab world explaining the gap
Joint Authors
Source
Economic Research Forum : Working Paper Series
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 979-1073 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-28, 28 p.
Publisher
Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries Iran and Turkey
Publication Date
2016-12-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
28
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
We take a new look at the question of the Arab democratic exception.
We use the new sixth wave of the World Value Survey, which was collected between 2012 and 2013, and which included for the first time 12 Arab countries, up from only four in wave 5.
We innovate empirically, by measuring the demand for democracy in a more robust way than past studies, and conceptually, by looking at how the forces of modernist aspirations, economic grievances, social preferences, and attachment to the status-quo interact for particular socio-economic groups to determine their preference for a democratic order over an autocratic one, and how these are affected in the Arab region by specificities related to self-interest, culture, and policy.
Our statistical analysis reveals a democratic gap in the Arab region, which is correlated, and thus possibly explained in parts, by lower emancipative effects of education among the educated, compared to global experience.
We argue that these effects must have been shaped in parts by the policies of power preservation pursued by the autocratic regimes of the past, rather than by local culture lone.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Isis, Muhammad& Diwan, Ishaq. 2016. Individual preferences for democracy in the Arab world explaining the gap. Economic Research Forum : Working Paper Series،Vol. 2016, no. 979-1073, pp.1-28.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-777292
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Isis, Muhammad& Diwan, Ishaq. Individual preferences for democracy in the Arab world explaining the gap. Economic Research Forum : Working Paper Series No. 979-1073 (Dec. 2016), pp.1-28.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-777292
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Isis, Muhammad& Diwan, Ishaq. Individual preferences for democracy in the Arab world explaining the gap. Economic Research Forum : Working Paper Series. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 979-1073, pp.1-28.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-777292
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes appendices : p. 21-28
Record ID
BIM-777292