Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak's Egypt

Lisa Blaydes is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Her work has appeared previously in International Organization, the Middle East Journal, World Politics and other journals. The dissertation on which this book is based received the 2009 Gabriel Almond Award for best dissertation in the field of comparative politics from the American Political Science Association. Blaydes received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008. From 2008 to 2010 she was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Political and economic change since 1952; 3. Elections and elite management; 4. The politics of infrastructure provision; 5. Electoral budget cycles and economic opposition; 6. Vote buying, turnout, and spoiled ballots; 7. Elections and elite corruption; 8. Elections and the Muslim brotherhood; 9. Liberal intellectuals and the demand for democratic change; 10. Foreign pressure and institutional change; 11. Egypt in comparative perspective; 12. Conclusion.

'… the book is well written, thought provoking and insightful … [it] provides the reader with a framework through which to analyse the 2011/12 Egyptian parliamentary elections and is a building block for assessing Egypt without Mubrak.' Rebecca Young Greven, Political Studies Review