Public Opinion Discourses on Democratization in the Middle East: A Case Study of Kuwait

• In Event: Political Communication: A Global Perspective

Abstract

Middle East democratization has been promoted as an explicit foreign policy objective in recent years prompting new discourses examining the efficacy of particular democratic processes, institutions, and tools that can be translated into these new contexts. Opinion polls play an important role in these discourses but are a rare and relatively recent phenomenon in the region. This paper examines three prominent international polls in the region which contribute to homogenized political discourses about regional democratization.

Author

• Fahed Al-Sumait, University of Washington