Egypt: Is the Economic Crisis Hurting El-Sisi’s Approval Ratings?
Brief analysis on the impact of the economic crisis in Egypt on the approval ratings of the Egyptian president El-Sisi.
Theme: Democracy
Explaining the Chronic Crisis of the Egyptian Economy
This paper analyzes the roots of the chronic political and socio-economic crises that kept the Egyptian economy suffering for seven decades.
Monitoring Presidential Elections 2018
In January – April 2018, LDI ran a nationwide campaign to monitor the freedom and fairness of presidential elections. LDI produced a detailed report documenting the electoral process and provided a scientific evaluation of the political and legislative context of the elections to measure the progress of democratic transformation in Egypt.
Monitoring Parliamentary Elections 2015
In late 2015, LDI ran a nationwide campaign to monitor the freedom and fairness of parliamentary elections. As a result, LDI produced six assessment reports that provided a scientific evaluation of the electoral process from the first day of calling for candidates till the last day of announcing ballot results.
Why the Muslim Brotherhood Failed to Rule Egypt?
This situation report analyzes why the Mulsim Brotherhood failed to keep their presidential seat in Egypt in 2012 and why they continued to fail as a group after the fall of their regime in Egypt and Tunisia
The Curious Case of the Three-Legged Wolf – Egypt: Military, Islamism, and Liberal Democracy
This book is the first publication to introduce “reverse nonviolent action” as a new theory within the socio-political field of nonviolent action and strategies. Through studying the curious case of Egypt during and after the waves of Arab Spring revolutions, the author proposes an insider’s answer to Arab Spring’s academic and political most complicated questions. This is the first Arab Spring related study to analyze the strategic choices made by the military institution, official and non-official Islamists, and the young liberal democratic activists to employ violent aggression, nonviolent strategies, and reverse nonviolent action to achieve social change and win political power.
Egypt – Universal Periodic Review – 3rd Cycle
Follow-up and assessment report on Egypt’s progress on human rights thematic categories related to liberal democratization and fighting terrorism based on UPR mechanism at the United Nation’s Council of Human Rights. This report provides an assessment to the progress achieved by the Egyptian state on the 2nd Cycle Recommendations, with special focus on issues related to liberal democratization, religious tolerance, and fighting violent extremism.
Monitoring Egypt’s House of Representatives Elections 2020
In September – December 2020, LDI team monitored Egypt’s House of Representative Elections and produced an assessment report on the progress of liberal democratization process in Egypt, through evaluating the freedom and fairness of the electoral process within the general political and legislative context of Egypt.
Monitoring Egypt’s Senate Elections 2020
In July – September 2020, LDI monitored Egypt’s Senate Elections and produced an assessment report on the progress of liberal democratization process in Egypt, through evaluating the freedom and fairness of the electoral process within the general political and legislative context of Egypt.
Africans want more democracy, but their leaders still aren’t listening
Afrobarometer’s Round 8 surveys took place across 34 countries during 2019-2021, alongside many of these democratic highs and lows, and…