scholarly journals Entanglements of the Maghreb

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Research ◽  
Arab World ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Heterogeneous Region ◽  
Cross Lingual ◽  
Social Affairs

The impulse for the recent transformations in the Arab world came from the Maghreb. Research on the region has been on the rise since, yet much remains to be done when it comes to interdisciplinary comparative research. The Maghreb is a heterogeneous region that deserves thorough investigation. This volume focuses on Entanglements as a cross-field and cross-lingual concept to generate a new approach to the region and its inner interdependencies as well as exchanges with other regions. Eminent researchers conceptualize Entanglements through the description of various thematic fields and actors in motion, addressing culture, politics, social affairs, and economics.

Repression of Islamists and Authoritarian Survival in the Arab World: A Case Study of Egypt

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Lachapelle
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
State Repression ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
Authoritarian Survival

This chapter explores the causes of state repression against Islamist organizations in the Arab world. Advancing a rich literature on state repression, authoritarianism, and Islamist politics, it proposes a new approach that centers on the role of non-Islamist audiences for explaining the repression of Islamists. Specifically, the chapter argues that when society is divided between non-Islamists and Islamists, an autocrat can repress Islamists to signal a commitment to non-Islamists to protect them from perceived threats by Islamists. It provides supporting evidence from Egypt, which shows how large-scale repression directed at the Muslim Brotherhood after the coup of 2013 served to cultivate the support of non-Islamists.

Addiction Types: A Clinical Sociology Perspective

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-93
Author(s):  
Jawad Fatayer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Arab World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Accurate Analysis ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Process Addiction ◽  
Psychological Dimensions

This paper presents a new approach to categorizing types of addiction, based on 20 years of clinical sociology practice in the United States and the Arab world. The cross-cultural clinical experience of the author enables him to establish a perspective on addiction that focuses on the social-psychological dimensions of the addictive process. Addiction types presented in this paper are based on clinical practice and treatment since 1986. The purpose of this paper is to put types of addiction in perspective and provide an effective diagnostic instrument for making an accurate analysis, successfully treating the addiction, and enhancing the potential for recovery.

scholarly journals The comparative method for policy studies: the thorny aspects

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-67
Author(s):  
Tatiana-Camelia Dogaru Cruceanu
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Research ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Policy Systems

Abstract Over the past decades, the comparative method has attracted the attention of the theorists, and studies based on this approach have increased in applied policy research. In their daily and strategically policy decisions, the decision makers from local, regional and national levels use more and more the comparative research methods, especially due to interlinked relationship and the need for bench learning and benchmarking practices. The comparative method allows the actors to analyse other experiences, and thus to take decisions more efficient. This is a normal, an inevitable situation, when the unit of analysis is a country, a field of matters or a process where researchers compare cases from empirical or theoretical point of view. The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical view on the capacity of comparative method to foster knowledge in policy studies. The intention is to see and to explore the utility of comparative method for policy studies and policy analysis, since a new approach “evidence-based policymaking” arise, emphasising the importance of using evidence from other political and policy systems.

scholarly journals Women and Politics in the Arab World

1970 ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Fawaz Traboulsi
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Women And Politics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Women's Participation

This special issue of Raida is devoted to the theme Women and Politics in the Arab World. Beyond the opinions, suveys and discussions concerning women's participation in politics, the obstacles they face and the achievements they made, the following pages are a quest for a new approach to politics in general.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Van de Peer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Third Cinema ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
History Of ◽  
Feminist Film

The introduction to the book identifies the female pioneers of documentary in the Arab area. It paints the historical context in which these women have been making documentaries, looking across borders within the Arab World and across transnational regions, within the form, in the seventies and eighties, nineties and two thousands. The theoretical approach is rooted in feminist film studies and Third Cinema theory. Using Ella Shohat’s writings on women making films in a post-Third Worldist and feminist reality, the chapter specifies those aspects of Third Cinema that have been neglected. Painting a socio-political and historical context for the films under discussion, it looks at the cultural history of documentary as well as thematic and stylistic tendencies in the Arab world. From an examination of Third Cinema and its focus on documentary the chapter moves on to New Arab Cinema (or ‘Cinema Chabab’) and its attitude towards melodrama and realism. This ‘new’ approach to the transnational documentary includes a clearer, perhaps more practical look at developing ideas of production, distribution and spectatorship.

scholarly journals Identifying urban areas: A new approach and comparison of national urban metrics with gridded population data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A Statham ◽  
Levi John Wolf ◽  
Sean Fox
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Population Data ◽  
Dominant Factor ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Urban Metrics ◽  
Urban Classification ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Statistical Comparability ◽  
Fixed Population

The measurement of urbanization and other key urban indicators depends on how urban areas are defined. The Degree of Urbanization (DEGURBA) has been recently adopted to support international statistical comparability, but its rigid criteria for classify areas as urban/non-urban based upon fixed population size and density criteria is controversial. Here we present an alternative approach to urban classification, using a flexible range of population density \& count thresholds. We then compare how these thresholds affect estimation of urbanization and urban settlement counts across three of the most popular gridded population datasets (GPD). Instead of introducing further uncertainties by matching GPD to built-up area datasets, we classify urban areas in a purely spatial demographic way. By calculating national urban shares and urban area counts, we highlight the often overlooked uncertainties when using GPD. We find that the choice of GPD is generally the dominant factor in altering both of these urban indicators but the choice of urban criteria is also important. Overall, this alternative urban classification method offers a more flexible approach to human settlements classification that can be applied globally for comparative research.

A New Approach to Estimating Electoral Instability in Parties

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dani M. Marinova
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Party System ◽  
Electoral Systems ◽  
Party Systems ◽  
New Parties ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Mass Behavior ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Different Sources

Recent scholarship has identified problems in the measurement of party system instability. To limit the conflation of different sources of instability in party systems (e.g., electoral shifts between stable parties and instability in parties, such as mergers, splinters or new parties), this article introduces a new indicator of electoral instability in parties, tests its robustness and construct validity and demonstrates its usefulness empirically. The indicators of party instability and the accompanying data of 27 European democracies, 1987–2011, will be valuable resources in comparative research on the interplay between elite and mass behavior, party and electoral systems, and democratic consolidation.

scholarly journals The First Woman Minister in the Syrian Government

1970 ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
World Today ◽  
Social Affairs

In the Arab World today, Women's claims for political rights seem to be reaching fulfillment. After the appointment of- a woman to the ministry of social affairs in both Egypt and Iraq, Syria followed suit in 1976 by appointing Dr. Najah Attar to the ministry of culture and national conseling.

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