
"Rarely is a collection of essays as coherent and of such uniformly high quality as is this one. This book makes a major contribution to our efforts to understand, and so competently interact with, the forces of political, economic, and social change in states where Islamic ideals...

In the late 1980s Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia began to experience the trend toward economic liberalization and political democratization. Analyzing developments from the perspectives of political culture and political economy, this work offers an analysis of the interaction...