Welcome to the APSA MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 4, Issue 2, Fall 2021!
Section News
Letter from the Editor, Marc Lynch
A Note from APSA , Andrew Stinson and Dana El-Issa
Research Symposium: The Uses and Abuses of Datasets
Coverage Biases in Off-the-shelf Protest Datasets , Killian Clarke
The Uses and Abuses of Democracy Ratings, Sarah Bush
The Elephant in our Analyses: Sensitivity Bias and Survey Research in the Middle East and North Africa, Ammar Shamaileh
Concepts, Measures, and Rabbit Holes, Benjamin Smith and David Waldner
Research Symposium: Tunisia’s Democratic Crisis
Attitudinal Foundations of Democratic Decline in Tunisia, Holger Albrecht, Dina Bishara, Michael Bufano, and Kevin Koehler
Making Sense of Tunisia’s Interregnum, Giulia Cimini
Burning Embers: Youth Activism and the Hope for Democracy in Tunisia, Kirstie Lynn Dobbs
Tunisian Democracy on Hold: Coup, Counter-Coup, or Creative Destruction, John P. Entelis
Electoral Democracy and its Discontents, Nate Grubman
Kais Saied: The Odd Figure in the Narrative of the “Tunisian Model”, Tarek Kahlaoui
Political Mistrust and the Islamist Impasse, Rory McCarthy
Tunisia: Failure of the Political Class, Rise of Kais Saied, and the Future of Democracy, Bedirhan Mutlu and Salih Yasun
Fast and Slow Politics, Mariam Salehi
Quotidian Indignities, Lana Salman