LEADER 04928nam 2200697 450 001 9910819009103321 005 20230126204308.0 010 $a0-8014-7031-5 010 $a1-336-20788-4 010 $a0-8014-7033-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801470332 035 $a(CKB)2560000000125881 035 $a(OCoLC)877868624 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10861878 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001184568 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12404725 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001184568 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11195756 035 $a(PQKB)10555085 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138595 035 $a(OCoLC)1080549972 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58504 035 $a(DE-B1597)496583 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801470332 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138595 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10861878 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL752074 035 $a(OCoLC)922998494 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000125881 100 $a20140429h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCompassionate communalism $ewelfare and sectarianism in Lebanon /$fMelani Cammett 210 1$aIthaca, New York :$cCornell University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (335 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-7893-6 311 $a0-8014-5232-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Figures, Maps, and Tables -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Welfare and Sectarianism in Plural Societies -- $t2. Political Sectarianism and the Residual Welfare Regime in Lebanon -- $t3. Political Mobilization Strategies and In-Group Competition among Sectarian Parties -- $t4. The Political Geography of Welfare and Sectarianism -- $t5. Political Loyalty and Access to Welfare -- $t6. Sectarian Parties and Distributional Politics -- $t7. Welfare and Identity Politics beyond Lebanon -- $tConclusion: The Consequences of Welfare Provision by Identity-Based Organizations -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aIn Lebanon, religious parties such as Hezbollah play a critical role in providing health care, food, poverty relief, and other social welfare services alongside or in the absence of government efforts. Some parties distribute goods and services broadly, even to members of other parties or other faiths, while others allocate services more narrowly to their own base. In Compassionate Communalism, Melani Cammett analyzes the political logics of sectarianism through the lens of social welfare. On the basis of years of research into the varying welfare distribution strategies of Christian, Shia Muslim, and Sunni Muslim political parties in Lebanon, Cammett shows how and why sectarian groups deploy welfare benefits for such varied goals as attracting marginal voters, solidifying intraconfessional support, mobilizing mass support, and supporting militia fighters.Cammett then extends her arguments with novel evidence from the Sadrist movement in post-Saddam Iraq and the Bharatiya Janata Party in contemporary India, other places where religious and ethnic organizations provide welfare as part of their efforts to build political support. Nonstate welfare performs a critical function in the absence of capable state institutions, Cammett finds, but it comes at a price: creating or deepening social divisions, sustaining rival visions of the polity, or introducing new levels of social inequality.Compassionate Communalism is informed by Cammett's use of many methods of data collection and analysis, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis of the location of hospitals and of religious communities; a large national survey of Lebanese citizens regarding access to social welfare; standardized open-ended interviews with representatives from political parties, religious charities, NGOs, and government ministries, as well as local academics and journalists; large-scale proxy interviewing of welfare beneficiaries conducted by trained Lebanese graduate students matched with coreligionist respondents; archival research; and field visits to schools, hospitals, clinics, and other social assistance programs as well as political party offices throughout the country. 606 $aCharities$zLebanon 606 $aHuman services$zLebanon 606 $aCommunalism$zLebanon 610 $asocial welfare, hezbollah, political logics of sectarianism, access to welfare in lebanon. 615 0$aCharities 615 0$aHuman services 615 0$aCommunalism 676 $a361.7095692 700 $aCammett$b Melani Claire$f1969-$0769707 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819009103321 996 $aCompassionate communalism$94016799 997 $aUNINA