Algeria

In recent years Algeria has experienced profound changes in its economic and political life, including a major privatization programme aimed at dismantling the powerful state companies that once dominated Algeria's economy. Long a model of the centralized socialist state, ruled by a single party, Algeria is experiencing the Arab world's most profound democratic experiment. All sections in this volume have been updated to include books and journal articles published since 1980 while useful and important works published before this date have been retained.Lawless, Richard I. is the author of 'Algeria', published 1995 under ISBN 9781851091300 and ISBN 1851091300.