Networks of Privilege in the Middle East The Politics of Economic Reform Revisited

by Heydemann, Steven

• ISBN13: 9781403963529
• ISBN10: 1403963525
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-21
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volume explores the role of informal networks in the politics of Middle Eastern economic reform. The editor's introduction demonstrates how network-based models overcome limitations in existing approaches to the politics of economic reform. The following chapters show how business-state networks in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan have affected privatization programs and the reform of fiscal policies. They help us understand patterns and variation in the organization and outcome of economic reform programs, including the opportunities that economic reforms offered for reorganizing networks of economic privilege across the Middle East

Author Biography

Steven Heydemann is Director, Center for Democracy and the Third Sector, Georgetown University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction. Networks of Privilege: Rethinking the Politics of Economic Reform in the Middle East	1	(34)
Steven Heydemann
Part 1 State-Business Networks and the Politics of Economic Reform	35	(132)
The Formation and Development of Economic Networks in Syria: Implications for Economic and Fiscal Reforms, 1986-2000	37	(40)
Bassam Haddad
The Whales of the Nile: Networks, Businessmen, and Bureaucrats During the Era of Privatization in Egypt	77	(24)
John Sfakianakis
Patterns of Resistance: Economic Actors and Fiscal Policy Reform in Egypt in the 1990s	101	(32)
Ulrich G. Wurzel
From Negotiation to Rent Seeking, and Back? Patterns of State-Business Interaction and Fiscal Policy Reform in Jordan	133	(34)
Oliver Wils
Part 2 Fiscality, Economic Reform, and the Role of Networks	167	(76)
Nobody Having too Much to Answer for: Laissez-Faire, Networks, and Postwar Reconstruction in Lebanon	169	(32)
Reinoud Leenders
Fiscal Trajectories in Morocco and Tunisia	201	(22)
Beatrice Hibou
Participatory Development and Liberal Reforms in Tunisia: The Gradual Incorporation of Some Economic Networks	223	(20)
Jean-Pierre Cassarino
Part 3 The Limits of Network-Based Approaches	243	(54)
Challenges to Networks of Privilege in Morocco: Implications for Network Analysis	245	(36)
Melani Cammett
Reconciling Privilege and Reform: Fiscal Policy in Egypt, 1991-2000	281	(16)
Eberhard Kienle
About the Contributors	297	(2)
Bibliography	299	(30)
Index	329