Cambridge Core - Middle East Studies - Return of Tyranny

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In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Turkuler Isiksel and Thomas B. Pepinsky, "Voting in Authoritarian Elections." Elections are often taken as a defining feature of democratic regimes. Although voting is not the only form of democratic political engagement, we tend to presume that voting makes the regimes we live under fairer, more stable and peaceful, or simply better governed.

A Milwaukee judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities has appeared in federal court and been released.

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Jordan outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's most vocal opposition group, on Wednesday and confiscated its assets after members of the group were found to be linked to a sabotage plot, Interior Minister Mazen Fraya said.

Co-organized by Allison Hartnett, Assistant Professor of Political Science; and Jeffery A. Jenkins, Provost Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law University of Southern California Oc...

Call for Applications: 2025 MENA Methods Workshop | August 16-20 (Amman, Jordan) Deadline: April 27, 2025 | Apply here The American Political Science Association’s (APSA) MENA Program is pleased to an...

Egypt's 1952 agrarian reform reduced persistent inequality and the dominance of the landed elite, but failed to lift up the poorest landowners and the landless In this paper, Rowaida Moshrif analyzes ...