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Judges and Generals in the Making of Modern Egypt: How Institutions Sustain and Undermine Authoritarian Regimes


ISBN13: 9781108425520
Published: February 2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
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Why do authoritarian regimes survive? How do dictators fail? What role do political institutions play in these two processes? Many of the answers to these questions can be traced to the same source: the interaction between institutions and preferences.

Using Egypt as a case study, Professor Mahmoud Hamad describes how the synergy between judges and generals created the environment for the present government and a delicate balance for its survival. The history of modern Egypt is one of the struggle between authoritarian governments, and forces that advocate for more democratic rights. While the military has provided dictatorial leaders, the judiciary provides judges who have the power to either support or stymie authoritarian power.

Judges and Generals in the Making of Modern Egypt provides a historically grounded explanation for the rise and demise of authoritarianism, and is one of the first studies of Egypt's judicial institutions within a single analytical framework.

Subjects:
Other Jurisdictions , Africa
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. The historical legacies and the institutional culture of the Egyptian judiciary
3. Nasser's Egypt: charisma, populism, and the attacks on judicial independence
4. The years of Sadat: crisis, regime survival, and the awakening of judicial activism
5. Judicial politics under Mubarak: judges and the fall of the Pharaoh
6. The scaf, the courts, and Islamists: judges and the political transition
7. Mursi and the judiciary: the self-fulfilling prophecy
8. Patricians and plebeians: the chief justice paves the road to the general
9. Old wine in a new bottle: Ssisi, judges, and the restoration of the ancien regime
References
Index.