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Islamist Parties and Political Normalization in the Muslim World by Quinn Mecham; Julie Chernov Hwang is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Islamist Parties and Political Normalization in the Muslim World about?
Since 2000, more than twenty countries around the world have held elections in which parties that espouse a political agenda based on an Islamic worldview have competed for legislative seats. Islamist Parties and Political Normalization in the Muslim World examines the impact these parties have had on the political process in two different areas of the world with large Muslim populations: the Middle East and Asia. The book's contributors examine major cases of Islamist party evolution and participation in democratic and semidemocratic systems in Turkey, Morocco, Yemen, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Bangladesh. Collectively they articulate a theoretical framework to understand the strategic behavior of Islamist parties, including the characteristics that distinguish them from other types of political parties, how they relate to other parties as potential competitors or collaborators, how ties to broader Islamist movements may affect party behavior in elections, and how participation in an electoral system can affect the behavior and ideology of an Islamist party over time.Through this framework, the contributors observe a general tendency in Islamist politics. Although Islamist parties r
Who reads Islamist Parties and Political Normalization in the Muslim World?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Quinn Mecham; Julie Chernov Hwang
- Publisher
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812246056
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Islam, Social_sciences