State reform and development in the Middle East : Turkey and Egypt in the post-liberalization era / / Amr Adly

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779445203321
• Autore: Adly Amr.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 0-203-10017-4; 1-283-89389-4; 1-136-23012-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in Middle Eastern economies
• Classificazione: BUS068000POL000000POL024000
• Disciplina: 338.9561
• Soggetti: Democratization - Turkey; Democratization - Egypt; Turkey Economic policy; Turkey Economic conditions 1960-; Egypt Economic policy; Egypt Economic conditions 1981-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: State Reform and Development in the Middle East Turkey and Egypt in the Post-Liberalization Era; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; 1. Why does state reform vary among developing countries?; 2. Escort states and export restructuring; 3. What happened in Turkey (1983-2010)? State reform and export restructuring; 4. Mission unaccomplished: Egypt (1990-2010); 5. Whence cometh state reform?; 6. Political competition and institutional reform; 7. Revenue bases and state reform; 8. Pathways to export-led growth: ISI institutional legacy and state reform9. External factors and state reform; 10. The end of a non-developmental regime: Mubarak's decline and fall (2004-2011); 11. Concluding remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "The economies of Turkey and Egypt, remarkably similar until the early 1980s, have since taken divergent paths. Turkey has successfully implemented a policy of export led industrialisation whilst Egypt's ; manufacturing industry and exports have stagnated. In this book, Amr Adly uses extensive primary research to present detailed comparisons of Turkey's and Egypt's state administrative and private sector capacities and links between the two. The conclusion the author draws is that the external contexts for both were so alike that this cannot account for their diverging paths. Instead, the author suggests a counterintuitive yet compelling explanation; that a democratic polity is far more likely than an authoritarian one to engender a successful developmental state. Emerging in the wake of the January revolution in Egypt, when hopes for democratisation were raised, this book provides a fresh perspective on the topical subject of state reform and development in the Middle East and will be of interest to students and scholar alike"--