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Record Nr.

UNINA9910522929503321

Autore

Neugebauer Christian

Titolo

Economic Liberalization and Authoritarianism : A Comparative Political Economy of Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, and Morocco, 1950-2011 / / by Christian Neugebauer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wiesbaden : , : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : , : Imprint : Springer VS, , 2022

ISBN

9783658356392

9783658356385

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (668 pages)

Collana

Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens, , 2626-2258

Disciplina

338.956

Soggetti

Middle East - Politics and government

Africa - Politics and government

International economic relations

Comparative government

Middle Eastern Politics

African Politics

International Political Economy’

Comparative Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Key terms -- Theory and state of the art -- Theoretical model and hypotheses -- Epistemology, methodology, methods -- Empirical analysis—Economic liberalization and the stability of authoritarian regimes in resource-poor countries of the MENA region: Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, and Morocco,1950–2011 -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Contrary to other world regions, political regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remain largely authoritarian. While the search for explanations is still ongoing, Christian Neugebauer draws attention to a hitherto underresearched factor: economic liberalization. Being part of a global shift from state-led development towards structural adjustment in the economy, these policies also deeply affected the countries of the MENA region. This makes the resilience of authoritarianism in the region all the more puzzling, as a large part of



the scientific community expected economic liberalization to undermine authoritarian regimes. Neugebauer strives to solve the puzzle with a comparative case study that covers four countries (Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, and Morocco) and their political regimes, from independence in the 1950s to the Arab Spring in 2011. He shows that two specific policies of economic liberalization might in fact have been relevant for regime stability: consumer-price liberalization and privatization. About the author Christian Neugebauer was a PhD candidate and lecturer in political economy of the Middle East and North Africa at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS), University of Marburg, Germany. He currently works as a regional expert (Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey) for an institution of the private economy. .