by Justin Saint-Loubert-Bie | Apr 25, 2019 | University of Chicago
The Egyptian people ratified constitutional amendments significantly expanding President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s power in an April referendum. The vote, which closed on April 22, left el-Sisi with greater power to appoint judges to important courts, as well as the...
by Willie Wells | Apr 14, 2018 | University of Memphis
It has been four years since Egyptians elected their last president. They are returning to the polls this week (Mar 26-28), to re-elect Abdel- Fattah el-Sissi, their incumbent president, to another four-year term. This election will be flawed. The other candidates...
by SABRINA NATALIE AMAYA | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
During the last nine years Egypt’s government has transitioned from a dictatorship to a presidential-parliamentary system. In 2011, Egyptians decided to remove then President Hosni Mubarak who had been president for thirty years. He was actually a dictator. When...
by Michaela Kollin | Nov 8, 2017 | Boston University
In his article in the Journal of Democracy, “Thinking About Hybrid Regimes,” Larry Diamond describes a hybrid regime as a regime that exists in countries that have democratic elections but not civil liberties (Diamond 27). Egypt is the type of hybrid regime that...
