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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.
Reluctant Liberalisation: A Democratic Audit of Jordan, 1989-2019
Adli Hawwari
2020
First published in the United Kingdom 2019 by Ud al-Nad Ltd
Copyright © Adli...
In the following pages, I shall re-ask the fifteen overarching questions, and restate the marks given by the twenty-four assessors and six experts. I shall then give my...
Preface Introduction Jordan: History and Political System Assessment: 1989-2010
1. Citizenship, Law and Rights 1.1: Nationhood and Citizenship 1.2: Rule of Law and...
Acronyms and List of Interviews
Acronyms and Abbreviations
ACC = Anti-Corruption Commission in Jordan
AFP = Agence France-Presse (French News Agency)
AI = Amnesty International
AVC = Audio-Visual...
On 8 November 2019, Jordan marked the thirtieth anniversary of what was hoped to be a transformation of the country’s political system into a democratic one. The initial stage...
A democratic audit, as defined by Beetham (1994, p. 25), ‘is the simple but ambitious project of assessing the state of democracy in a single country’. It is accurate to suggest...
Assessment: 1989-2010, Citizenship, Law and Rights
In this chapter, I present, analyse, and discuss the data gathered through two questionnaires referred to previously. I follow the order and headings of categories and...
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,...
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...
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