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Title : Factors Influencing Democratic Transition in Arab Political Systems: A Case Study of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Yemen (2010 -2015(
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Abstract
The thesis aims to understand, explain, and analyze the different trajectories and outcomes of the democratic transition process. It explores, in-depth, the question as to why some countries succeed, while others fail, in democratic transition. In this vein, the main research question is: What are the influencing factors that facilitating or impeding the process of the democratic transition in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen from 2010 to 2015?Comparing Tunisia with Egypt, Yemen, and Libya, this study seeks to determine the internal and external factors influencing that facilitating or impeding the democratic transition process in the four cases from 2010 to 2015.The study examines two factors. The first factor concentrates, in particular, on the effect of the consensually unified and disunified elite on the pathways and outcomes of the democratic transition. In this vein, the thesis focuses on domestic interactions between national elites, either consensually unified or disunified elites, following the collapse of the old regime and the start of the process of installation of a new one. Moreover, the study examines the circumstances that facilitated or hindered elite transformation ,from a disunified elite toward a consensual one, which likely promotes the democratic transition.On the other hand, the second factor deals with examining and analyzing the role of the United States, and to what extent, and how, the US has influenced the pathways and outcomes of the democratic transition in the four cases studies