Download or read book Legacies of Repression in Egypt and Tunisia written by Alanna C. Torres-Van Antwerp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an authoritarian regime collapses, what determines whether an opposition group will form a political party, be successful in mobilizing voters, and survive or dissolve as a group in subsequent years? Based on unique field research, this examines how legacies of authoritarian rule shaped the outcome of Egypt's 2011 founding elections.