Convergent (il)liberalism in the Mediterranean? Some notes on Egyptian (post-)authoritarianism and Italian (post-)democracy

Teti, Andrea and Mura, Andrea (2013). Convergent (il)liberalism in the Mediterranean? Some notes on Egyptian (post-)authoritarianism and Italian (post-)democracy. European Urban and Regional Studies, 20(1) pp. 120–127.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776412460535

URL: http://eur.sagepub.com/content/20/1/120.full.pdf+h...

Abstract

This paper explores the hypothesis of a convergence between ‘backsliding’ European liberal democracies and the ‘pseudo-liberalization’ of Middle Eastern authoritarian systems by considering the similarities, beyond the well-known differences, between Italy and Egypt. We suggest that standard indicators of regime type (e.g. Polity IV Authority Index) fail to capture important trends both in the evolution of both the forms of political power and the forms of resistance. Reflecting on such trends may help re-think the current limitations of Democratization theory.

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• Item ORO ID
• 36373
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 1461-7145
• Keywords
• civil society; clientelism; corruption; democracy; Egypt; Italy; post-democratization
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
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• © 2012 The Authors
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• Andrea Mura