Assessing MENA Political Reform, Post-Arab Spring

Brian Robert Calfano is associate professor of political science at Missouri State University.

• Chapter One: Introduction. Brian Calfano and Marcus MarktannerChapter Two: The Arab Popular Uprisings. Brian Calfano and Emile SahliyehChapter Three: Islam and Interpretive Ingenuities. Brian Calfano and Lynne Alisé LofftusChapter Four: Parties as Political Forces in the Maghreb. Abdelhak AzzouziChapter Five: How Green is the Spring? Comparing the Iranian and the Arab Pro-democracy Movements. Mahmoud Sadri and Nader HashemiChapter Six. Oil and Economic Liberalism in the MENA. Mehmet GursesChapter Seven. Does Regime Type Make a Difference for MENA Reform? Todd Spinks, Brian Calfano, and Emile Sahliyeh Chapter Eight. Elite-Led Consideration of the Role of Women in MENA Politics: Some Initial Experimental Findings. Brian Calfano, Marcus Marktanner, and Christina MichelmoreChapter Nine. Transmitting Reform? The Media’s Effect on MENA Democracy and Human Rights. Brian Calfano and Emile SahliyehChapter Ten. MENA and the Internet: Technology and the Democratic Divide. Jason Gainous and Kevin WagnerChapter Eleven. Concluding Observations and Recommendations. Brian Calfano

Calfano and colleagues. . . .provide nuanced explanations. The reader learns, for example, that power-sharing relationships between political parties and governments—such as in the Maghreb states of Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco—are crucial in deciding the capacity for reform in the post uprising era.