ABSTRACT
The book concludes with a chapter that brings the empirical and theoretical threads of the research together. It also further elaborates on the main findings, before drawing some implications for further research. First of all, this work has identified and discussed at great length the four sets of constitutive elements of institutional development, their change (or lack thereof), pace, direction, and content in the context of the Egyptian and Tunisian transitions in the period between 2011 and the beginning of 2014. Second, another goal of this book has been to shed light on the ways in which different paths of institutional development have influenced political outcomes and the attainment of democracy. In this regard, one of the most far-reaching findings emerging from this research pertains to the quality of institutions, mainly understood in terms of inclusiveness and identified as the single overarching factor explaining democratic success or failure in Egypt and Tunisia in the short-to-medium-term. In addition to structure and agency, the existence of inclusive institutions is directly linked to temporal factors, in particular timing and sequencing, and their impact on institutional development.
