TY  - BOOK
AU  - Teti,Andrea
AU  - Mura,Andrea
TI  - Convergent (il)liberalism in the Mediterranean? Some notes on Egyptian (post-)authoritarianism and Italian (post-)democracy
SN  - 09697764
AV  - HT395 EUR 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London
PB  - sage
KW  - Convergent
KW  - liberalism in the Mediterranean
KW  - (Post-)democracy
KW  - Mediterrane, Egypt Italy
N2  - This paper explores the hypothesis of a convergence between ‘backsliding’ European liberal democracies and the ‘pseudo-liberalization’ of Middle Eastern authoritarian systems (Cavatorta, 2010) by considering the similarities, beyond the well-known differences, between Italy and Egypt. We suggest that standard indicators of regime type (e.g. Polity IV Authority Index) fail to capture important trends both in the evolution of both the forms of political power and the forms of resistance. Reflecting on such trends may help re-think the current limitations of Democratization theory (Teti, 2012)
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776412460535
ER  -