Challenging the Transition Paradigm : The impact of arenas of democracy on comparative transitioning processes in Communist Poland and contemporary Egypt.
This thesis explores the status of socio-political society, rule of law, and economic society in Communist Poland and contemporary Egypt prior to their respective transitions. After establishing a status of aforementioned societal institutions, this thesis will aim to show the influence these institutions had on a transition process in both of these cases. In order to achieve this task, the thesis