Security Services and Authoritarian Stability - A Comparative Case Study of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria before the Arab Spring
(2022) UNDK02 20212Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This study tests the theory of Authoritarian Stability against the expectation that security services are essential for preventing the fall of the regime in Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in the lead up to the Arab Spring. A most similar comparative case study is used as method. Authoritarian stability is operationalised as the ruler maintaining the support from domestic elites and from external powers to preserve their rule. This operationalisation is used to collect information from mostly academic resources and an assessment of each state’s security services is also performed to assess if the theory or the effectiveness of security service has the most significant effect on deciding outcome.
The data show a strong support for the Theory of... (More) - This study tests the theory of Authoritarian Stability against the expectation that security services are essential for preventing the fall of the regime in Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in the lead up to the Arab Spring. A most similar comparative case study is used as method. Authoritarian stability is operationalised as the ruler maintaining the support from domestic elites and from external powers to preserve their rule. This operationalisation is used to collect information from mostly academic resources and an assessment of each state’s security services is also performed to assess if the theory or the effectiveness of security service has the most significant effect on deciding outcome.
The data show a strong support for the Theory of Authoritarian Stability as the best predictor of outcome while at best only weak support for the expectation that security services are important at preserving regime stability in an authoritarian state. (Less)
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- author
- El Ghoul, Wessam LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- UNDK02 20212
- year
- 2022
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Authoritarian States, Theory of Authoritarian Stability, Security Services, Arab Spring, Egypt, Jordan, Syria.
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9071070
- date added to LUP
- 2022-03-18 11:01:07
- date last changed
- 2022-03-18 11:01:07
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