209 - MERIP

Winter 1998

Middle East Report 209 looks at why authoritarian regimes in the region continue to hold electoral exercises.


Arcs of Crises	The Editors
Up Front
“Sanctions Have an Impact on All of Us”	Denis Halliday
Two Faces of Janus	Michael Young
Beirut Dispatch	K. S.
Room to Breathe	Daniel Burton-Rose
Articles
Behind the Ballot Box	Marsha Pripstein Posusney
Charting Elections in the Middle East	Mark Levine
Mission: Democracy	Sheila Carapico
Winner Takes All	Iris Glosemeyer
Algeria’s Contested Elections	Hugh Roberts
A Paradox of Democracy?	Jillian Schwedler
Perspectives on Elections from the Arab World	Kamal Khaled, Gamal Abdel Aziz, Mudar Kassis, Mohamed Karam, Sion Assidon, Issam Naaman, Hani Hourani
The Malaise of Turkish Democracy	Aslı Aydıntaşbaş
Special Reports
Al Miskin (Winter 1998)
Reviews
Review	JoAnn D'Alisera