Publisher's Synopsis
Essay from the year 1996 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: 62/100 Punkte, Lancaster University (Department of Politics and International Relations), course: MA16: Politics and International Relations of the Middle East, language: English, abstract: This essay intends to show how and to what extent political participation within the democratisation process has been achieved in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. If democracy can be defined as the entailment of "the rule of law and the tolerance of diversity and minority groups", then, Egypt and Saudi Arabia both have achieved this stage of political development through different means on the political as well as on the economic level.
