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Security Services and Authoritarian Stability - A Comparative Case Study of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria before the Arab Spring

El Ghoul, Wessam LU (2022) UNDK02 20212
Department 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
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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  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 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.}},
  author       = {{El Ghoul, Wessam}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Security Services and Authoritarian Stability - A Comparative Case Study of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria before the Arab Spring}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}