Social Dictatorships - The Political Economy of Welfare State in Middle East North Africa

This book provides an overview of welfare provision and social policies in authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and North Africa.

List of contents

• 1: Welfare states in the Middle East and North Africa: Puzzles and answers


• 2: Welfare efforts in comparative perspective


• 3: Divergent paths: The coalitional origin of authoritarian welfare states


• 4: Social pacts over time


• 5: Tunisia: An authoritarian welfare state


• 6: Egypt: Between warfare and welfare


• 7: MENA welfare states: Explanations and broader implications


• Appendix


• Appendix A: Introduction


• Appendix B: Social pacts over time


• Appendix C: Tunisia


• Appendix D: Egypt


• Appendix E: List of interviews in order of appearance

About the author

Ferdinand Eibl is a Lecturer in Political Economy at King's College London. He was previously a Postdoctoral Research Officer at the London School of Economics, and his research focuses on the political economy of authoritatian rule in the Middle East and North Africa, in particular in the areas of distributive politics, cronyism, and the political economy of coup-proofing.

Summary

This book provides an overview of welfare provision and social policies in authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and North Africa.

Additional text

When scholars mix qualitative and quantitative methods, one of them usually gets short-changed. Ferdinand Eibl's book is a rare exception to this rule: his field research is of as high quality as his quantitative analysis. He has undertaken remarkable detective work through interviews with decision-makers and access to (now closed off) national archives, getting as close to elite decision-making as is humanly possible in authoritarian systems. At the same time, he has collected unique primary data to identify the long-term distributional consequences of these decisions across the MENA region. His findings are of great relevance for scholars of both authoritarianism and social policy.

Product details

• Authors: Ferdinand Eibl, Ferdinand (Lecturer in Political Economy Eibl
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2020
• EAN: 9780198834274
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883427-4
• No. of pages: 380
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Middle East, Social welfare & social services, Political Economy, Welfare economics, Social welfare and social services, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, North Africa, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship