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Trust and Tolerance across the Middle East and North Africa: A Comparative Perspective on the Impact of the Arab Uprisings
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Abstract The protests that swept the Arab Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are expected to have influenced two key civic attitudes fundamental to well-functioning democracies: trust and tolerance. However, systematic comparative assessments of the general patterns and particularities in this region are ra... mehr
The protests that swept the Arab Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are expected to have influenced two key civic attitudes fundamental to well-functioning democracies: trust and tolerance. However, systematic comparative assessments of the general patterns and particularities in this region are rare. This contribution theorizes the uprisings’ impact and presents new society-level measurements of trust and tolerance for the MENA, synchronizing over 40 Arab Barometer and World Values Survey surveys on Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, and Yemen, from before and after the uprisings. The analyses firstly show political-institutional trust falling in the uprisings’ aftermath in countries that went through democratic reform or regime change. It appears that politicians misbehaving and reforms not resolving social problems hurt people’s trust in politics. Secondly, in democratic transition countries Egypt and Tunisia, a decrease in social trust reflected the pattern of political-institutional trust indicating a spill-over effect. Thirdly, ethno-religious tolerance dropped region-wide after the uprisings, indicating that the aftermath of religious conflict impacted the entire Arab region. These results support rational-choice institutionalist theories, while at the same time refining them for the MENA context.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Nahost; Nordafrika; politischer Konflikt; Protest; Demokratisierung; öffentliche Meinung; Vertrauen; Toleranz; Reformpolitik; ethnische Beziehungen
Klassifikation
Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Arab spring; civic attitudes; democracy; Middle East; uprisings
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 4-15
Zeitschriftentitel
Politics and Governance, 5 (2017) 2
Heftthema
Multidisciplinary Studies in Politics and Governance
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v5i2.750
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)