Judges and Generals in the Making of Modern Egypt: How Institutions Sustain and Undermine Authoritarian Regimes
- 323 p., 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The historical legacies and the institutional culture of the Egyptian Judiciary -- Nasser's Egypt : charisma, populism, and the attacks on judicial independence -- The years of Sadat : crisis, regime survival, and the awakening of judicial activism -- Judicial politics under Mubarak : judges and the fall of the Pharaoh -- The SCAF, the courts, and Islamists : judges and the political transition -- Mursi and the judiciary : the self-fulfilling prophecy -- Patricians and Plebeians : the chief justice paves the road to the general -- Old wine in a new bottle : Sisi, judges, and the restoration of the Ancien Régime.
9781108425520
Administration of justice--Egypt Political questions and judicial power--Egypt Judges--Egypt Generals--Egypt Authoritarianism--Egypt
Egypt--Politics and government--21st century Egypt--Politics and government--History.-