Judges and generals in the making of modern Egypt how institutions sustain and undermine authoritarian regimes / [Texte imprimé] :
Mahmoud Hamad
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019
- 1 vol. (323 p.) ; 24 cm
Notes bibliogr.
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