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Between ballots and bullets : Algeria's transition from authoritarianism

Author: William B Quandt
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book on Algeria looks at both the erosion of the authoritarian model and the difficulties of making a transition to democracy. Within the past decade, Algeria experienced one of the most promising experiments of opening up the political system and allowing a remarkable degree of freedom. That initial effort failed, however, when poorly designed elections were won by an Islamist party that was unacceptable to  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: William B Quandt
ISBN: 0815773021 9780815773023 0815773013 9780815773016
OCLC Number: 38936716
Description: xi, 199 p. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: William B. Quandt.

Abstract:

"This book on Algeria looks at both the erosion of the authoritarian model and the difficulties of making a transition to democracy. Within the past decade, Algeria experienced one of the most promising experiments of opening up the political system and allowing a remarkable degree of freedom. That initial effort failed, however, when poorly designed elections were won by an Islamist party that was unacceptable to the military. The subsequent explosion of political violence has cost at least 75,000 lives in recent years. Despite this deep crisis there are reasons to believe that Algeria may emerge from its turmoil with a consensus on the need to respect pluralism and to accept the basic rules of democratic politics."--BOOK JACKET.

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