POLI 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Confirmation Bias, Al-Qaeda, Authoritarianism
21 Dec 2016
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Lecture notes egypt"s complex transitions 4/10/2016. Egypt"s transitional path has been a particularly complex one: 2011 mubarak regime was overthrown, scar (supreme council of the armed forces) efforts to manage the transitional process, 2012 - muslim brotherhood electoral victory and political consolidation. Popular backlash, dramatic backlash, muslim brotherhood branded as a terrorist movement, and military coup in 2013. How did the population go from transitional elections, to broad support of coup that removed morsi: egypt"s experience is important bc it is a large and influential country, and raises a number of important analytical questions, namely: Media coverage of tahrir square certainly gave a sense of a nation united against the mubarak dictatorship: gave idea of everyone affected by popular protest however, support may have been rather weaker in some sectors. Voter turnout was not all that impressive (54% in 2011-12 parliamentary elections, 43% 2012 presidential elections, 33% 2012 constitutional referendum)
