What type of democracy is the middle east?

Answer 1

Answer 1

Israel, Turkey, and Cyprus have governments where all citizens over a certain age can vote for political parties that occupy seats in a Parliament and create a ruling coalition. This coalition appoints the Prime Minister and takes over the affairs of governance between the fair and non-fraudulent elections. If current Tunisia (in North Africa, but not the Middle East proper) continues to behave the way it did in the previous election by the time the next election comes, it too will become a Parliamentary Democracy.

Answer 2

Israel is the only true democracy in the Middle East. Turkey is relatively close to being a democracy, but there are some aspects of liberal society that are missing.

Answer 3

Officially speaking, Egypt, Israel, Iran, right to the eastern edge of the middle east, Pakistan and Afghanistan. However for all intents and purposes the Israeli cliche is largely right; most countries are so corrupt, Israel is the near east's "only democracy" but even that cliche may in fact be wrong. As the saying goes "where there's smoke there's fire," the internet, and even obscure but reputable academic works, are all abuzz with rumors that Israel is in fact a fascist state, with a socialist economy favoring a few powerful elite, passing itself off as a democracy, when it in fact isn't.

I will not say, that is a fact, I will only parrot the now cliche'd saying "where there's smoke there's fire

Commentary on Answer 3

Egypt, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan are NOT democracies. They are either run by a royal family or a have a tribal leader in charge. The censorship is so bad in Egypt that magazines/newspapers are gone through to make sure there is not any content against the religion of the region. The Iranian election in 2009 shows it is not a democracy and is run by a group of powerful priests. If Afghanistan is a democracy why are we going to send 40,000+ men into it? There is no government there and Pakistan has a puppet government that is controlled by the military.

Answer 2

The Middle East is not a unitary country. In countries like Turkey, Israel, and Cyprus, there are parlimentary demoncracies. Elsewhere in the Middle East, there are illiberal democracies, monarchies, military juntas, compromised democracies, and theocracies.

Answer 3

There are three: Turkey, Cyprus, and Israel, although you are probably looking for Israel considering that Turkey and Cyprus had less stable phases in the 1970s and 1980s.