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أرشيف عدلي الهواري موقع يهدف إلى المساهمة في التراكم المعرفي وتعزيز التفكير النقدي. يحوي الموقع وثائق وكتبا من تأليف مؤسس الموقع. يمنع منعا باتا إعادة نشر ما هو منشور في الأرشيف في مواقع أخرى.
Representative and Accountable Government
In this chapter, I present, analyse, and discuss the data pertaining to the second category in the democratic audit: representative and accountable government. It has six...
Civil Society and Popular Participation
In this chapter, I continue the presentation and discussion of the data of the democratic audit. This chapter deals with the third major category: civil society and popular...
This is the fourth and final major category in the democratic audit. It examines the external influences on democracy in Jordan as well as Jordan’s influence abroad in support...
Detailed Assessment: 1989-2010
This chapter widens the scope of the assessment by examining more of the data collected in the long questionnaire, which has ninety questions. I propose to cover two questions...
Representative & Accountable Government
This part of the long questionnaire consists of six subcategories: free and fair elections (2.1); the democratic role of political parties (2.2); effective and responsive...
Civil Society & Popular Participation
This part of the long questionnaire consists of three subcategories: the media in a democratic society (3.1); political participation (3.2); decentralization (3.3).
3.1:...
This part of the long questionnaire consists of two subcategories: external influences on the country’s democracy (4.1); and the country’s democratic impact abroad (4.2)....
Updated Appraisal: 2011-2019
In the following pages, I shall re-ask the fifteen overarching questions, and restate the marks given by the twenty four assessors and six...
In this concluding chapter, I examine why democracy has failed to take root in Jordan to date. I will outline several reasons often cited to explain the failure, and scrutinize...
In the conclusions of the original democratic audit, I offered several possible explanations as to why democracy did not take root in Jordan. Did anything happen since then to...
Abu Azzam, S. 2016. Taqyeem Nizam al-Nazah al-Watani fi al-Urdun [A Review of the National Integrity System in Jordan]. Amman: Rashid-Transparency International.
Abu Khalil,...
Jordan: History and Political System
In this chapter, I provide brief backgrounds for the modern history of Jordan; its political system; the branches of government; the economy; and the Palestinian connection in...
Controlled Democratisation: Democracy and Islam in Jordan, 1989-2019
A Critical Reexamination of the Incompatibility Paradigm
Adli Hawwari
2020
First published in...
The initial stage of change was promising. It produced an assertive House of Deputies (HoD). Thirty years later, the governments in Jordan are still formed and dismissed at the...
Although there was a promising start in 1989, it did not lead to further democratization in the country. Thirty years after the ‘resumption of our democratic life’, Jordan...
Glossary
Ᾱya = Qur’anic verse; plural: āyāt
Ba‛th = Revival; renewal; renaissance
Bay‛a = Endorsement; mandate; pledge of allegiance
Fatwa = Reasoned opinion or...
This chapter outlines various democratic theories to outline the debates about the definitions of democracy and to identify the theories that inform this book.
‘A theory,’ as...
This chapter focuses on the claims of incompatibility between democracy and Islam. The religious justifications of the claims made by Muslims are examined. It is of particular...
Having discussed the claims of incompatibility made by Muslims, I shall discuss Esposito and Voll’s arguments concerning Islamic democracy, whose elements, they suggest, include...
In this chapter, I continue the discussion of the incompatibility of Islam, Islamism and democracy.
In an attempt to be less sweeping in making the claim that Islam is...
Jordan: History and Political System
This chapter consists of five parts. One will focus briefly on the modern history of Jordan. Another focuses on the political system in Jordan, particularly its branches of...
