Paul W. T. Kingston is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is the author of Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East, 1945–1958 and the coeditor (with Ian S. Spears) of States within States: Incipient Political Entities in the Post–Cold War Era.

• Preface and Acknowledgments1. Advocacy Politics within Weak and Fragmented States: A Framework for Analysis2. Sectarian Democracy in Modern Lebanon: Its Emergence, Consolidation, and Reproduction3. Struggling for Civic Space: Associated Politics within Lebanon’s Postwar Sectarian Democracy4. Confronting Sectarian "Veto Points": Women’s Advocacy Politics in Postwar Lebanon5. The "Greening" of Sectarianism: The Rise and Fall of Environmental Advocacy in Postwar Lebanon6. Chehabism from Below? Disability Advocacy and the Challenge of Sustaining Policy ReformConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"This book is a serious effort by Kingston … to apply a complicated social science paradigm to a complex problem … A good book for specialists in social policy." — CHOICE