rest of the Arab World. We find that high and upper-middle income countries are immune to democracy shocks in Egypt …We examine the role of democracy shocks in the cross-country economic growth processes over a period of five decades … since 1960. The recent uprisings that arose independently and spread across the Arab world form the main context of our …

that constitutional models combining Islam and democracy have a popular support base in the Arab world …Public opinion polls show that Arab citizens support both democracy and Islamic governing principles. Among other … for democracy and shari'a. Particularly, non-secularist orientations and support for Islamic legality significantly …

aggregate trends of democratic waves or sequences, demonstrating how the ebb and flow of democracy varies among the world …'s regions. The main finding suggests that the current revolution waves in the Arab World can be understood in light of the …

the security-democracy dilemma in a complex way that transcends the realpolitik frame overshadowing the analysis of the EU …