The Arab Uprisings were unexpected events of rare intensity in Middle Eastern history - mass
popular and largely non-violent revolts which threatened and in some cases toppled apparently
stable autocracies. This volume provides in-depth analyses of how people perceived the
socio-economic and political transformations in three case studies epitomising different
post-Uprising trajectories - Tunisia Jordan and Egypt - and drawing on survey data to explore
ordinary citizens' perceptions of politics security the economy gender corruption and
trust. The findings suggest the causes of protest in 2010-2011 were not just political
marginalisation and regime repression but also denial of socio-economic rights and regimes
failure to provide social justice. Data also shows these issues remain unresolved and that
populations have little confidence governments will deliver leaving post-Uprisings regimes
neither strong nor stable but fierce and brittle. This analysis has direct implications both
for policy and for scholarship on transformations democratization authoritarian resilience
and 'hybrid regimes'.
