Egypt

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The paper states that when analyzing the political environment in Egypt, one of the most important questions one would ask refers to the political regime of Egypt. This paper focuses on presenting the level of democratization in Egypt by analyzing the latest elections that took place there in 2005. The paper specifically focuses on elections as these are a very significant indicator of the level of democratization of a country.

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"The respect of human rights and of principles of equality show how developed a country is and the level of development is closely linked to the level of democratization. Elections represent a democratic practice that allows citizens to choose their representatives and freedom of elections is a guarantee of the freedom that each citizen has to chose and be chosen. Freedom of elections is an indicator of the political freedom of a country and of the level of democratization of that country. Based on this argument, this paper analyzes the latest elections in Egypt and how free and fair they were, arguing that the level of democratization of Egypt can be determined after analyzing its elections."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Consolatore, D., Living with democracy in Egypt, available at http://www.thehumanist.org/humanist/articles/Consolatore.Egypt.pdf;
• Ibrahim, A., 2006. "Universal Values and Muslim Democracy." Journal of Democracy Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 5-12;
• Kjeilen, T., Egypt: Political situation, available at http://www.lexicorient.com/e.o/egypt_1.htm;
• Lipset, S. M., 2004 [1960]. "Economic Development and Democracy", in Patrick O'Neil and Ronald Rogowski (eds.) Essential Readings in Comparative Politics. New York: W.W. Norton, pp. 287-301.

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