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Angrist considers why Turkey was the only Middle Eastern country to evolve lasting competitive political institutions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Party Systems and Regime Formation in the Middle East

Part I: Explaining Party System Characteristics

1. The Emergence of the Preponderant Single-Party Systems

2. The Emergence of the Multiparty Systems

3. The Emergence of Bipartism in Turkey

Part II: The Impact of Party Systems on Regime Formation

4. Preponderant Single Parties and Immediate Authoritarian Rule

5. Polarization, Mobilization Asymmetry, and Delayed Authoritarian Rule

6. Depolarization, Increased Mobilizational Symmetry, and the Consolidation of Competitive Politics in Turkey

Conclusion: The Arguments in Middle East and Comparative Perspective

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Michele Penner Angrist is associate professor of political science at Union College in Schenectady, New York.

Reviews

"This work is magisterial both in its command of a variety of theoretical literatures and in its treatment of a large number of empirical cases. With elegance, it makes important contributions to the field of comparative politics generally and to scholarship on the Middle East in particular." - Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Bryant University "Just when all the conversation about the Middle East starts to revolve around issues of democracy and democratization, we have here a volume that tackles the subject head on. Angrist provides fresh insights and suggests new ways of understanding democratization in the Middle East and beyond." - Resat Kasaba, University of Washington