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The Digital Origins of Dictatorships and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam. By Philip Howard. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 304p. $17.20.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2011

Evgeny Morozov
Affiliation:
Stanford University

Extract

Philip Howard's important book offers a timely and thorough treatment of a subject that has been catapulted into the global limelight thanks to recent revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt: the impact of the Internet on the political cultures in the Middle East.

Type
Critical Dialogue
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2011

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