‘Civil Societies’ and the Arab Uprisings-Prospects for Socio-political Change: A Comparative Analysis of the On-going Tunisian and Egyptian Plight

Khneisser, Mona

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02089-7_2

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“…Lastly, other countries were totally aware from this Spring, so they made some serious changes. This claim by Perthes (2008) is supported by some other researchers who state that prior to the protests' wave which was in the Arab world, some Western theorists had revealed in length about the seeming immunity of Arab countries to democratic changes relating their views mainly to the Arab culture passivity as well as the Islam resistance to the modernization (Achcar 2016;Khneisser, 2019). Bayat (2013) added several Middle Eastern observers had also depicted the Arab world as an exceptional case regarding static continuity, enduring authoritarianism, and cultural passivity.…”

Section: Immunity System In Arab Worldmentioning

confidence: 77%

Parliamentary Immunity among Arab Constitutions

Al-Zubi¹

2020

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Point of fact, legislature is seen to be a significant body in any country because of its key duties of passing the legislations regarding the responsibility it has. The national and legal system has given legal protections for the legislature’ members in order to help them in carrying out the responsibility they have according to the countries’ constitutions, and this kind of protection is known to be the parliament immunity. The present study aims to clarify the parliamentary immunity concept explaining its own legal nature among Arab constitutions. Additionally, this study discusses important points related to the parliament immunity such as its types, namely, objective type as well as procedural type differentiating between them. Furthermore, this study indicates to some important aspects regarding parliament immunity among Arabs highlighting points like the lifting procedures of the immunity and some legal reasons for lifting and the constitutions’ positions regarding that. The study concludes that Arab countries have a special situation due to important events such as Arab Spring and Palestinian Issue in which they confirm that the Arab countries must deal with the parliament immunity carefully in a way that makes their people satisfied, lastly, some recommendations are made for further studies in the same topic.

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Section: Immunity System In Arab Worldmentioning

confidence: 77%

Parliamentary Immunity among Arab Constitutions

Al-Zubi¹

2020

JPL

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‘Civil Societies’ and the Arab Uprisings-Prospects for Socio-political Change: A Comparative Analysis of the On-going Tunisian and Egyptian Plight

Cited by 1 publication

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Parliamentary Immunity among Arab Constitutions

Parliamentary Immunity among Arab Constitutions

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