How differing forms of repression shape the outcomes of democratic transitions In the wake
of the Arab Spring, newly empowered factions in Tunisia and Egypt vowed to work together …

THE ARAB UPRISINGS OF 2011–2012—popular protests that challenged authoritarian rule
across the Middle East and North Africa—took the world by surprise. The possibility that the …

Holding that the 2011 anti-authoritarian Arab uprisings were “fundamentally linked” to
previous dynamics of authoritarianism, Beyond the Arab Spring explains this political …

Nearly two years after removal of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak, Tunisia and
Egypt are still in transition: gains made by early 2013 remain tenuous, and whether …

Under the Justice and Development Party AKP and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey has
become one of the most polarized countries in the world, and has undergone a significant …

The prevailing perception of the uprisings that swept the Arab world in late 2010 and early
2011 is that they have failed to bring about a long-awaited transition to liberal democracy in …

The media played a key role in mobilizing the Arab uprisings of 2010–11, but played a far
more negative role in the transitions which ensued. Rather than constituting new public …

Three years after the first mass protests of the Arab Spring, senior scholars weigh in on how
democracy is faring. Beginning in December 2010, a series of uprisings swept the Arab …

The Arab uprisings of 2011 led to a reassessment of comparative politics research on
authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa. The Arab region made its way from …

While many observers of politics in the Arab world hold that the emergence of political
opposition would be a harbinger of democratization, this article argues that opposition can …