Abhatoo - Centre Nationale de Documentation

The reviews of electoral laws in the Arab world collected in this compendium represent a modest contribution toward the development of a conceptual framework for addressing the institutional democratic challenges facing the region. Although the focus is on electoral law, such analyses inevitably raise normative issues that inform the effectiveness of these laws. These normative factors may be clustered into four areas: notions of democratization and liberalization; human rights; the nature of the Arab nation-state; and the role of religion.