LEADER 04603nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910465498103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-06541-7 010 $a0-674-06981-1 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674065413 035 $a(CKB)2560000000082521 035 $a(OCoLC)794004244 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10568038 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000658429 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11415001 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000658429 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10690553 035 $a(PQKB)10626740 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301094 035 $a(DE-B1597)178208 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674065413 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301094 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10568038 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000082521 100 $a20111107d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe rise and fall of Arab presidents for life$b[electronic resource] /$fRoger Owen 205 $aFirst edition 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-674-06583-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.203-226) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Search for Sovereignty in an Insecure World --$t2. The Origins of the Presidential Security State --$t3. Basic Components of the Regimes --$t4. Centralized State Systems in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and Algeria --$t5. Presidents as Managers in Libya, Sudan, and Yemen --$t6. Constrained Presidencies in Lebanon and Iraq after Hussein --$t7. The Monarchical Security States of Jordan, Morocco, Bahrain, and Oman --$t8. The Politics of Succession --$t9. The Question of Arab Exceptionalism --$t10. The Sudden Fall --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aThe monarchical presidential regimes that prevailed in the Arab world for so long looked as though they would last indefinitely?until events in Tunisia and Egypt made clear their time was up. The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life exposes for the first time the origins and dynamics of a governmental system that largely defined the Arab Middle East in the twentieth century. Presidents who rule for life have been a feature of the Arab world since independence. In the 1980's their regimes increasingly resembled monarchies as presidents took up residence in palaces and made every effort to ensure their sons would succeed them. Roger Owen explores the main features of the prototypical Arab monarchical regime: its household; its inner circle of corrupt cronies; and its attempts to create a popular legitimacy based on economic success, a manipulated constitution, managed elections, and information suppression. Why has the Arab world suffered such a concentration of permanent presidential government? Though post-Soviet Central Asia has also known monarchical presidencies, Owen argues that a significant reason is the ?Arab demonstration effect,? whereby close ties across the Arab world have enabled ruling families to share management strategies and assistance. But this effect also explains why these presidencies all came under the same pressure to reform or go. 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Joglekar 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford $cWileyl$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (283 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780470497166 311 08$a0470497165 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aINDUSTRIAL STATISTICS; CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1. BASIC STATISTICS: HOW TO REDUCE FINANCIAL RISK?; 1.1. Capital Market Returns; 1.2. Sample Statistics; 1.3. Population Parameters; 1.4. Confidence Intervals and Sample Sizes; 1.5. Correlation; 1.6. Portfolio Optimization; 1.7. Questions to Ask; 2. WHY NOT TO DO THE USUAL t-TEST AND WHAT TO REPLACE IT WITH?; 2.1. What is a t-Test and what is Wrong with It?; 2.2. Confidence Interval is Better Than a t-Test; 2.3. How Much Data to Collect?; 2.4. Reducing Sample Size; 2.5. Paired Comparison; 2.6. Comparing Two Standard Deviations 327 $a2.7. Recommended Design and Analysis Procedure 2.8. Questions to Ask; 3. DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS: IS IT NOT GOING TO COST TOO MUCH AND TAKE TOO LONG?; 3.1. 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MANAGING AND IMPROVING PROCESSES: HOW TO USE AN AT-A-GLANCE-DISPLAY?; 7.1. Statistical Logic of Control Limits 327 $a7.2. Selecting Subgroup Size 7.3. Selecting Sampling Interval; 7.4. Out-of-Control Rules; 7.5. Process Capability and Performance Indices; 7.6. At-A-Glance-Display; 7.7. Questions to Ask; 8. HOW TO FIND CAUSES OF VARIATION BY JUST LOOKING SYSTEMATICALLY?; 8.1. Manufacturing Application; 8.2. Variance Components Analysis; 8.3. Planning for Quality Improvement; 8.4. Structured Studies; 8.5. Questions to Ask; 9. IS MY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM ACCEPTABLE AND HOW TO DESIGN, VALIDATE, AND IMPROVE IT?; 9.1. Acceptance Criteria; 9.2. Designing Cost-Effective Sampling Schemes 327 $a9.3. Designing a Robust Measurement System 9.4. Measurement System Validation; 9.5. Repeatability and Reproducibility (R&R) Study; 9.6. Questions to Ask; 10. HOW TO USE THEORY EFFECTIVELY?; 10.1. Empirical Models; 10.2. Mechanistic Models; 10.3. Mechanistic Model for Coat Weight CV; 10.4. 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