The Study of Parties in Political Development in the Middle East and North Africa

In: Middle East Studies Association bulletin, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 1-13

Abstract

A concern on the part of Middle East specialists with an examination of political parties and groupings and related political processes represents a comparatively recent development. It is a development, of course, which has lagged behind the study of parties and political processes in the United States and Europe, although even there the subject largely was neglected until a quarter of a century ago.