Politics and Governance in the Middle East

Durac, Vincent; Cavatorta, Francesco

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“…Popular mobilization compels ruling regimes to value people's legitimate needs and demands. Durac and Cavatorta (2015) emphasize that authoritarianism has faced multifaceted challenges in many MENA countries during and after the Arab Spring in the form of widespread popular protests aiming to improve the quality of governance as well as standards of living. These issues need to be understood in the context of the political economy of the state formation in the MENA region.…”

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“…These few promulgated policies incentivizing domestic oil demand and then leveraged them as a tool of state development and political control (Krane, 2019). Durac and Cavatorta (2015) observe that the (re)distribution of income and wealth derived from the exploitation and sale of hydrocarbons greatly impacted economic and political development in MENA and maintained the stability of ruling regimes. Oil wealth was an expedient governing strategy for regime resiliency and capacity in providing public goods, including infrastructure development for the consolidation of power.…”

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“…In the MENA context, Durac and Cavatorta (2015) illustrate the factors that enhance good governance in the region are the efficient delivery of public goods and macroeconomic stability, particularly in the monarchical regimes. Hertog (2010a, p. 262) argues how several Gulf rentier monarchies have managed to create highly profitable and well‐governed state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) (e.g., Saudi Arabia's Basic Industries Corporation [SABIC], Dubai logistic giant Dubai Ports [DP] World), generating perplexing expectations of both SOE inefficiency and the poor quality of rentier public sectors.…”

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Governance, natural resources rent, and infrastructure development: Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa

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Bhuiyan

2022

Politics & Policy

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This article identifies the role governance plays in developing physical infrastructure through the utilization of natural resource rent as public investment for infrastructure development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The empirical model employs panel data from 15 MENA countries and two governance indices (GOVI)-GOVI Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and GOVI (Additive). Using the Granger Causality test, a one-time lag was applied to minimize endogeneity concerns. The article introduces the panel unit roots, and panel Granger noncausality is used for testing stationarity and causal relationships. Estimates of both specifications suggest that improving the quality of governance leads to a significant positive effect on physical infrastructure development in the MENA region. The study departs from the traditional natural resource rent curse arguments and moves toward natural resources rent and good governance indicators for infrastructure development. The findings show that natural resources rent and governance do matter for infrastructure development. This article offers new theoretical and empirical insight in the context of the MENA region.

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Governance, natural resources rent, and infrastructure development: Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa

Ali

Bhuiyan

2022

Politics & Policy

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“…La segunda década de los 2000 también dio lugar a una prolífica literatura intrarregional sobre regímenes políticos y gobernanza (Schwarz, 2012;Gasiorowski, 2016;Jebnoun et al, 2013;Durac y Cavatorta, 2015;Monshipouri, 2019;Hinnebusch y Ganni, 2019); estructura social y construcción de identidades (Mabon y Ardovini, 2019; Yom 2019); movimientos islamistas e islam político (Schwedler, 2013; Revista Española de Ciencia Política. Núm.…”

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Los métodos mixtos de investigación para el análisis del cambio político en el Norte de África y Oriente Próximo

Del-Moral

2020

Rev. Esp. Cienc. Polít.

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Democratization processes are a relevant issue for Comparative Politics. However, cross-regional proposals comparing cases from different geographical areas based on context sensitivity are still limited, whereas comparative research using mixed-method approaches such as Comparative Area Studies (CAS) and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) are very exceptional. In spite of their scarcity, these methods present advantages both conceptually and methodologically. On the one hand, regions acquire relevance as an analytical category, not as an explanatory element. On the other hand, they help to test theories previously applied to particular regional or local contexts. This mixed approach is highly adaptable to political change studies and it is particularly useful for comparative studies. In fact, it allows for a contextual description of countries; favours classification; enables evaluating previous theories; and facilitates comparisons. However, most of QCA publications are focused on evaluating classical theories and they do not usually take into account the asymmetry of processes of political change. In this regard, this publication recommends distinguishing between types of political change processes and including new conditions that have only been covered from intrarregional and case study research on the Middle East and North Africa studies (MENA).

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“…Between the time of the Free Officers Coup of 1952 to the late 1950s and early 1960s, Egypt, through numerous nationalisation decrees and legal manoeuvres, became the largest owner of PUL (Durac & Cavatorta 2015: 119). In this regard, ‘Law 147/1957 amending Article 970 of Common Law 131/1948’ (Shawkat 2016 a : 12) was enacted to initiate and establish the State's control over all public land, including the 11% of Egypt's arable land owned by the Religious Endowments (Alianak 2007: 171).…”

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The politics of public land dispossession in Egypt: 1975–2011 and beyond

Koussa

2020

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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This article examines changes in the allocation of urban land in Egypt between 1975–2011 with the rise and incorporation of state authoritarianism and neoliberal economics in what I call ‘authoritarian neoliberalism’. Authoritarian neoliberalism in Egypt transferred ownership of urban lands from public wealth to an affluent class of local and foreign capitalists – often in a non-transparent fashion. The article focuses on the government's legally sanctioned practices of subsidisations, privatisations and evictions as they relate to what I call, inspired by David Harvey's formulation, the accumulation of wealth by dispossession. Dispossession of public urban land, I maintain, generated widespread resentment that played a vital, but inadequately discussed, role in the series of revolts that culminated in the 2011 uprising in Egypt. Social tensions engendered in this authoritarian neoliberal regime, I argue, endure under the administration of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who continues to transfer public urban lands, from lower to higher socioeconomic classes, at an even faster pace than his predecessor.

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Politics and Governance in the Middle East

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Governance, natural resources rent, and infrastructure development: Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa

Governance, natural resources rent, and infrastructure development: Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa

Los métodos mixtos de investigación para el análisis del cambio político en el Norte de África y Oriente Próximo

The politics of public land dispossession in Egypt: 1975–2011 and beyond

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