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Egypt has functioned under two political systems (monarchy and republic) and three types of party systems since the days of Khedive Ismail Pasha (1863–1879). The multiparty system lasted until the 1952 Revolution, the so-called single-party system lasted from 1953 to 1976, and the contrived multiparty system has been in place since 1978.
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P. J. Vatikiotis, Egypt’s Political Experience: The 1952 Revolution as an Expression of the Historical Heritage, 3–29, in Shamir Shimon (ed.), Egypt from Monarchy to Republic (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995): 19.
Geraint Parry and Michael Moran (eds.), Democracy and Democratization (London: Rutledge, 1994): 208.
The single party, common in many Middle East nations, has served to disseminate ideology and to organize political participation. Many scholars feel that the single-party system is more an instrument of ideological indoctrination than a channel for political participation. See Harik Iliya, The Political Mobilization of Peasants: A Study of an Egyptian Community (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974): 62–63.
Leonard Binder, In a Moment of Enthusiasm: Political Power and the Second Stratum in Egypt (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978): 36; See also Iliya, Mobilization of Peasants, 66–67.
Ansari Hamied, Egypt, the Stalled Society, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986): 113–115.
Raymond William Baker, Egypt’s Uncertain Revolution Under Nasser and Sadat, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978): 61.
Farid Abdel Magid, Nasser: The Final Years, (Reading: Ithaca Press, First Edition 1994): 86.
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Arafat, A.AD. (2009). Introduction: Chronic Survival. In: Hosni Mubarak and the Future of Democracy in Egypt. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137067531_1
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