LEADER 04405nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910789849503321 005 20230725030921.0 010 $a0-8014-7751-4 010 $a0-8014-5877-3 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801458774 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079090 035 $a(OCoLC)726824204 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457571 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000486735 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11309180 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486735 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10442390 035 $a(PQKB)10935679 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137950 035 $a(DE-B1597)481758 035 $a(OCoLC)987949485 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801458774 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137950 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457571 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL759692 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079090 100 $a20090807d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPrinces, brokers, and bureaucrats$b[electronic resource] $eoil and the state in Saudi Arabia /$fSteffen Hertog 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (311 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-336-28406-4 311 $a0-8014-4781-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcronyms --$tDramatis Personae --$tIntroduction --$t1. Unpacking the Saudi State --$tPart I: Oil and History --$t2. Oil Fiefdoms in Flux: The New Saudi State in the 1950's --$t3. The Emerging Bureaucratic Order under Faisal --$t4. The 1970's Boom --$tPart II: Policy-Making in Segmented Clientelism --$t5. The Foreign Investment Act --$t6. Eluding the "Saudization" of Labor Markets --$t7. The Fragmented Domestic Negotiations over WTO Adaptation --$t8. Comparing the Case Studies, Comparing Saudi Arabia --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aIn Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi Arabia to date, Steffen Hertog uncovers an untold history of how the elite rivalries and whims of half a century ago have shaped today's Saudi state and are reflected in its policies. Starting in the late 1990's, Saudi Arabia embarked on an ambitious reform campaign to remedy its long-term economic stagnation. The results have been puzzling for both area specialists and political economists: Saudi institutions have not failed across the board, as theorists of the "rentier state" would predict, nor have they achieved the all-encompassing modernization the regime has touted. Instead, the kingdom has witnessed a bewildering mélange of thorough failures and surprising successes. Hertog argues that it is traits peculiar to the Saudi state that make sense of its uneven capacities. Oil rents since World War II have shaped Saudi state institutions in ways that are far from uniform. Oil money has given regime elites unusual leeway for various institutional experiments in different parts of the state: in some cases creating massive rent-seeking networks deeply interwoven with local society; in others large but passive bureaucracies; in yet others insulated islands of remarkable efficiency. This process has fragmented the Saudi state into an uncoordinated set of vertically divided fiefdoms. Case studies of foreign investment reform, labor market nationalization and WTO accession reveal how this oil-funded apparatus enables swift and successful policy-making in some policy areas, but produces coordination and regulation failures in others. 606 $aPetroleum industry and trade$xGovernment policy$zSaudi Arabia 606 $aEconomic development$xPolitical aspects$zSaudi Arabia 606 $aBureaucracy$zSaudi Arabia 606 $aPatron and client$zSaudi Arabia 607 $aSaudi Arabia$xEconomic policy 607 $aSaudi Arabia$xPolitics and government 615 0$aPetroleum industry and trade$xGovernment policy 615 0$aEconomic development$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aBureaucracy 615 0$aPatron and client 676 $a330.9538/05 700 $aHertog$b Steffen$01580818 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789849503321 996 $aPrinces, brokers, and bureaucrats$93862021 997 $aUNINA