Title Judges and generals in the making of modern Egypt : how institutions sustain and undermine authoritarian regimes / Mahmoud Hamad, Cairo University

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 323 pages) Contents The historical legacies and the institutional culture of the Egyptian Judiciary -- Nasser's Egypt : charisma, populism, and the attacks on judicial independence -- The years of Sadat : crisis, regime survival, and the awakening of judicial activism -- Judicial politics under Mubarak : judges and the fall of the Pharaoh -- The SCAF, the courts, and Islamists : judges and the political transition -- Mursi and the judiciary : the self-fulfilling prophecy -- Patricians and Plebeians : the chief justice paves the road to the general -- Old wine in a new bottle : Sisi, judges, and the restoration of the Ancien Régime Summary Discusses why and how the Egyptian judiciary was critically important in bringing down two vastly different regimes in three years Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 05, 2019) Subject Justice, Administration of -- Egypt Political questions and judicial power -- Egypt Judges -- Egypt Generals -- Egypt Authoritarianism -- Egypt LAW -- Civil Procedure. LAW -- Legal Services. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch. Authoritarianism Generals Judges Justice, Administration of Political questions and judicial power Politics and government SUBJECT Egypt -- Politics and government -- 21st century Egypt -- Politics and government -- History Subject Egypt Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108586269 1108586260 9781108559393 1108559395

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