Introduction : Yemen's experiment with democracy
Pluralized authoritarianism and the Yemeni patronage system
Resilience and reform in the Arab Middle East
The "gray zone"
A brief history of the Republic of Yemen : electoral politics, war, and political retraction
Government institutions military and security apparatus
Tribalism in a weak state tribal autonomy
Non-state actors and political reform : civil society, activists and political parties
Political Islamists and the Islah Party
Islah as opposition standing under the tree and waiting for the fruit to fall
Conclusion : coercion, managed pluralism and legitimacy
political Islam.
Yemen's democracy experiment in regional perspective : patronage and pluralized authoritarianism by Sarah Phillips. ISBN 9780230609006. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.