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1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
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Governance and limited statehood series |
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Governance and limited statehood series.
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| Contents |
Analyzing politics beyond the center in an age of transformation / Anja Hoffmann, Malika Bouziane, Cilja Harders -- Contemporary governscapes : sovereign practice and hybrid orders beyond the center? / Finn Stepputat -- The bureaucratic mode of governance and pratical norms in West Africa and beyond / Jean-Pierre Olivier De Sardan -- Beyond the radicalism-pragmatism dialectic in the study of local politics : contrasting privatizing, communitarian, and vulgar expressions in revolutionary Cairo / Paul Amar -- The inward turn and its vicissitudes : culture, society and politics in post-1967 Arab leftist critiques / Fadi A. Bardawil -- Bringing the local back in : local politics between informalization and mobilization in an age of transformation in Egypt / Cilja Harders -- Negotiating (informal) institutional change : understanding local politics in Jordan / Malika Bouziane -- Morocco between decentralization and recentralization : encountering the state in the useless Morocco / Anja Hoffmann -- Revisiting politics in spaces beyond the centre : the case of the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon / Hala Caroline Abou-Zaki -- Political participation in Algeria beyond the polling stations : insights from Tizi-Ouzou / Naoual Belakhdar -- Tribes, revolution, and political culture in the Cyrenaica region of Libya / Thomas Hüsken -- Conclusion / Cilja Harders, Anja Hoffmann, Malika Bouziane |
| Summary |
The contributors link innovative analytical concepts and ethnographic in-depth case studies from the Arab world. Based on the debates on politics from below and dynamic concepts of state, all the chapters focus on informal institutions, non-elite actors, and the dynamic and contradictory relationship between state and society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Local government -- Arab countries
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Central government policies -- Middle East.
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Development studies -- Middle East.
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Regional government policies -- Middle East.
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Development economics & emerging economies -- Middle East.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Local government
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Politics and government
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Central -- national -- federal government policies -- Middle East.
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Development studies -- Middle East.
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Regional -- local -- state government policies -- Middle East.
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Development economics & emerging economies -- Middle East.
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Politics and Government.
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| SUBJECT |
Arab countries -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006286
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| Subject |
Arab countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bouziane, Malika
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Harders, Cilja
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Hoffmann, Anja
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| ISBN |
9781137338693 |
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1137338695 |
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1306093783 |
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9781306093781 |
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9781137338686 |
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1137338687 |
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1349464104 |
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9781349464104 |
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