Transitions to Democracy / Transitions to Democracy

Politics of the Middle East / Politics of the Middle East

Allison Spencer Hartnett, Yale University

Democratization Through Destructive Withdrawal: The Political Autonomy of Actors in Accounts of Systemic Political Change - Mostafa Hani Hefny, American University in Cairo

Earthquakes for Practices: How responses to natural disasters prepared authoritarian states and opposition groups for the Arab Spring - Taiyi Sun, Christopher Newport University

Islamists between Democracy and Authoritarianism - Sebnem Gumuscu, Middlebury College

The Concept of Democratic Waves Revisited: Positioning the Arab Spring - Shorouk A. Elzayat, Suez Canal University

Rising Up: A Framework for the Study of Democratization and Revolution - Sean Burns, College of William and Mary

Allison Spencer Hartnett, Yale University