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Diana Zeidan, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales In May 2016, municipal elections took place in Lebanon amidst severe…
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Evren Celik Wiltse, South Dakota State University Introduction Most studies on political Islam in Turkey have embraced a comprehensive, national…
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Mara Revkin, Yale University Previous studies of rebel governance predict that armed groups with access to exploitable resources will tend…
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Yuree Noh, University of California, Los Angeles In a country characterized by the ban on political parties and the weakness…
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Melissa Marschall and Marwa Shalaby, Rice University; Saadet Konak Unal, University of Houston The rise of Islamist politics over the…
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Mujtaba Isani, University of Muenster Over the past decade, the rural areas of Sindh in Pakistan have gradually seen a…
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Margot Dazey, University of Cambridge Muslim Brotherhood-inspired organizations in Europe are often portrayed as centralized, hierarchical and disciplined structures (Amghar…
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Janine A. Clark, University of Guelph* Analyses of Islamist political parties focus overwhelmingly on their performance in national elections, largely…
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