After Repression : : How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition / / Elizabeth R. Nugent.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Nugent, Elizabeth R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Studies in Political Behavior ; 28
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 10 b/w illus. 9 tables.

How differing forms of repression led to substantially divergent political outcomes in Tunisia and Egypt following the Arab SpringIn the wake of the Arab Spring, newly empowered factions in Tunisia and Egypt vowed to work together to establish democracy. In Tunisia, political elites passed a new constitution, held parliamentary elections, and demonstrated the strength of their democracy with a peaceful transfer of power. Yet in Egypt, unity crumbled due to polarization among elites. Presenting a new theory of polarization under authoritarianism, After Repression reveals how polarization and the legacies of repression shape the divergent outcomes of democratic transitions.Drawing on original interviews and a wealth of new historical data, Elizabeth Nugent documents polarization among the opposition in Tunisia and Egypt prior to the Arab Spring, tracing how different kinds of repression influenced the bonds between opposition groups. She demonstrates how widespread repression created shared political identities and decreased polarization—such as in Tunisia—while targeted repression like that carried out against the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt led opposition groups to build distinct identities that increased polarization among them. This helps explain why elites in Tunisia were able to compromise, cooperate, and continue on the path to democratic consolidation while deeply polarized elites in Egypt contributed to the rapid retrenchment of authoritarianism.Providing vital new insights into the ways repression shapes polarization, After Repression helps to explain what happened in the turbulent days following the Arab Spring and illuminates the obstacles to democratic transitions around the world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION -- PART I. Theoretical Perspectives -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Theory of Polarization in Authoritarian Regimes -- PART II. Repertoires of Repression -- 3 The Historical Origins of Authoritarian Repression -- 4 Targeted and Widespread Repression in Authoritarian Regimes -- PART III. Repression, Identity, and Polarization -- 5 Repression and Polarization in Tunisia, 1987–2010 -- 6 Repression and Polarization in Egypt, 1981–2011 -- 7 Identity and Polarization in the Lab -- PART IV. After Authoritarianism -- 8 Polarization during Democratic Transitions -- 9 Conclusion -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE