POL112H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neoconservatism, Civil Society, Clean House
7 Jul 2016
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Democracy in egypt failed o o o o had elections violence. Mass protests brought down dictator hosni mubarak in 2011- wanted democracy- Mohamed morsi and the muslim brotherhood were elected led to polarization and. Best organized group/organization that had been banned by the dictatorship. General abdel fattah el-sisi seized power in a 2013 military coup. Egypt returned to autocracy as the new regime has killed over 1,000 civilians and imprisoned tens of thousands more. Democracy failed because the person who was elected lost power. Some argue that it was a good thing democracy failed because the muslim brotherhood and the. Morsi were discriminating against minorities (christians) and they did not have a fair balanced government, it was a pseudodemocracy. Tunisia has a chance for democracy fh considers it electoral democracy o. Mass protests brought down the government in 2011 similar to egypt both part of the arab spring.
