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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Middle Eastern governments, political opposition groups, liberal democracies, semi-authoritarian

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Political Science

Abstract

There is a growing consensus among scholars that “social science research on the Middle East has, as of yet, scarcely dealt with political opposition as an independent subject of analysis.” Most scholars consider the role of opposition as one way to facilitate the growth of democracy in developing states. They find a good starting point with the concept of alternance, which is defined as the expectation that in a democracy government and opposition compete to gain public support to form a government. In liberal democracies, alternance allows various parties the opportunity to become the higher authority through free and fair elections.

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