| Description |
viii, 334 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-327) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : networks of privilege : rethinking the politics of economic reform in the Middle East / Steven Heydemann -- pt. 1. State-business networks and the politics of economic reform. The formation and development of economic networks in Syria : implications for economic and fiscal reforms, 1986-2000 / Bassam Haddad -- The whales of the Nile : networks, businessmen, and bureaucrats during the era of privatization in Egypt / John Sfakianakis -- Patterns of resistance : economic actors and fiscal policy reform in Egypt in the 1990s / Ulrich G. Wurzel -- From negotiation to rent seeking, and back? : patterns of state-business interaction and fiscal policy reform in Jordan / Oliver Wils -- pt. 2. Fiscality, economic reform, and the role of networks. Nobody having too much to answer for : laissez-faire, networks, and postwar reconstruction in Lebanon / Reinoud Leenders -- Fiscal trajectories in Morocco and Tunisia / Beatrice Hibou -- Participatory development and liberal reforms in Tunisia : the gradual incorporation of some economic networks / Jean-Pierre Cassarino -- pt. 3. The limits of network-based approaches. Challenges to networks of privilege in Morocco : implications for network analysis / Melani Cammett -- Reconciling privilege and reform : fiscal policy in Egypt, 1991-2000 / Eberhard Kienle. |
| Subject |
Business and politics -- Arab countries -- Case studies.
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Business and politics. |
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Arab countries. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
Elite (Social sciences) -- Arab countries -- Case studies.
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Elite (Social sciences) |
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Heydemann, Steven.
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| ISBN |
1403963525 cloth alkaline paper |
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