Election in Arab Countries motivation and obstacles

Hazim Alshihk, Bassam

doi:10.33899/regs.2012.28182

	Election in Arab Countries motivation and obstacles
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Article 12, Volume 9, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 363-398 PDF (0 K)
DOI: 10.33899/regs.2012.28182
Author
Bassam hazim alshihk
Abstract
As the electoral processes is essential to build democracy but rather a means or translated and embody the meaning of the participation of the people in power, and its ability to change the acceptable and desired by the legal channels and logic and the correct legal method. Perhaps that concept is the embodiment of what is happening in most countries of the world, past and present, and here is growing and the means of the contribution of the people in power, deemed the election mechanism the main contribution to the people in politics, defended the electoral process, including that there is the impossibility in the application of direct democracy that the people managing its own political affairs directly without the intervention of a second party has therefore become a semi-direct democracy and representative democracy are applied in the two systems by the ideology of each state and therefore need to be elected by the people of his representative in the exercise of power. The face of the electoral process constraints and obstacles and ballasts fail this process, or empty it of content or limit their effectiveness and the practice of democracy is mounted and a transparent and fair, and limit what can be said that there is the responsibility of rulers to voters who can vote to reject a person or remove him from office, the size of the electorate depends the application of universal suffrage, and notes that the ruling classes have always put the restrictions and obstacles to the many categories of citizens to withhold their vote and thus reduce the size of the electorate to a minimum.
Keywords
Electoral process in Arab countries; electoral process

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