| Description |
xviii, 474 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The framework of the study. Economic growth and structural transformation ; State structure and development policy ; Social actors ; Structural transformation and interest formation ; Defensive modernization and colonial transformation -- Economic growth and structural change. The natural resource base ; Oil supply, demand, and economic rents ; Patterns of economic growth -- The impact of demographic change. Comparative demographic patterns ; The economic consequences of demographic change ; The politics of young populations ; The politics of differential fertility ; Rapid population growth and the would-be middle class -- Human capital: health, education, and labor markets. Health conditions ; Educational systems ; Labor markets -- Water and food security. The food gap ; Policy constraints to output growth ; Water and the imperative of a new food security strategy -- The emergence of the public sector. The State as architect of structural transformation ; Atatürk and the Turkish paradigm ; Replicating the paradigm ; State capitalism, the state bourgeoisie, and the process of accumulation -- Contradictions of state-led growth. The continued dominance of public-sector enterprise ; The political economy of "structural adjustment" -- |
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Remixing market and state: the uncertain career of the "Washington consensus" ; A survey of country experiences -- Urban political economy. The process of urbanization ; Housing and infrastructure ; Poverty and distribution of income ; Urban politics and political violence -- Political regimes: as viewed by themselves and others. Socialist republics ; "Liberal" monarchies ; Established and would-be democracies ; The Islamic republics ; Future regimes: some speculations -- Solidarism and its enemies. Small groups and clientelist politics ; The failure of parties ; The tenets of solidarism ; The failure of ideology ; The Islamist challenge ; Democracy without democrats? -- The military and the state. The military in Middle East politics ; Good guys or bad guys? ; The economic weight of the military ; The military and nation building ; The regular military and civilians-in-arms -- Is Islam the solution? Preliminaries ; Islamism as a social movement: coalitions of social actors ; Islamism as a social movement: collective action ; Islamist economic thought and practice ; Islamists in power -- Regional economic integration and labor migration. Labor migration: an overview ; The first stream: to the European Union ; The second stream: to the gulf ; The impact of labor migration on sending countries ; The impact of migration on receiving countries -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
This integrated, analytic text presents a comprehensive analysis of the transformation of the political economy of development in the contemporary Middle East over the past several decades. Extensively rewritten and revised, this third edition retains a focus on the interaction of economic development processes, state systems, and social actors even as it also: documents the many changes in demography, education, labor markets, urbanization, water and agriculture, and international labor migration in the Middle East in recent years ; considers the effect of rising oil prices on reinforcement of authoritarian governance in the region ; refines its assessment of "the Washington Consensus" to provide a more nuanced approach to the issue of the shifting balance of state and market in economic growth and reform ; presents Islamism as a vital force in the region that is nonetheless a vast, diverse social movement with many conflicting participants |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-450) and index |
| Subject |
Working class -- Middle East.
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| SUBJECT |
Middle East -- Economic conditions -- 1979-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89001684
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Middle East -- Economic policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115878
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Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89000800
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| Author |
Waterbury, John.
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| LC no. |
2006037317 |
| ISBN |
0813343488 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9780813343488 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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