TY - BOOK AU - Mahmoud Hamad TI - Judges and Generals in the Making of Modern Egypt: How Institutions Sustain and Undermine Authoritarian Regimes SN - 9781108425520 PY - 2018/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Administration of justice KW - Egypt KW - Political questions and judicial power KW - Judges KW - Generals KW - Authoritarianism KW - Politics and government KW - 21st century KW - History.- N1 - 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 RĂ©gime ER -