The development of political interaction in Kuwait through the “Dīwānīyas” from their beginnings until the year 1999

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This study aims to highlight the functional role of Diwaniyas in the Kuwaiti society regarding the historical heritage including its role in getting involved in the process of figuring significant social and political changes. This is particularly regarding the separating historical periods of the succession of the State of Kuwait. We are satisfied only with investigating its nature since the emergence of the State of Kuwait until the last period of the 20th century regarding our being interested with not changing the current period that its features would witnessed obviously in two or three coming decades. This is regarding the implicit overlap between the internal and external political statuses, and the impact of each of them on the other. This study also tries focusing on the Diwaniyah's role and significance such as activist social institutions that established a sort of the political activity in the society. These social institutions represented the first types of parliaments in which the first and the most significant based political election types on the people participation without concerning the tribal or ethnic unity were practiced in them. This study also highlights how the Diwaniyas could keep this role existent over several times and the repeating crisis. It influences that political change process in Kuwait, especially after the political crisis reflected their gravity in repeated manner regarding reflecting the role of Diwaniyas in terms of not meeting the expectations of some people who expected that the Diwaniyah's role would declined during the existence of crisis and their being stressed. It happened especially after the political participation subject, which counted as the first standard for any occurring real political and social development in any country.View full textDownload full textKeywordsKuwait Parliament, Kuwait tribe, Kuwait political participation, Kuwaiti society, Diwaniya , democracy in KuwaitRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1528817X.2010.528592