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

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction: Networks of Privilege: Rethinking the Politics of Economic Reform in the Middle East......Page 10
Part 1 State–Business Networks and the Politics of Economic Reform......Page 44
1 The Formation and Development of Economic Networks in Syria: Implications for Economic and Fiscal Reforms, 1986–2000......Page 46
2 The Whales of the Nile: Networks, Businessmen, and Bureaucrats During the Era of Privatization in Egypt......Page 86
3 Patterns of Resistance: Economic Actors and Fiscal Policy Reform in Egypt in the 1990s......Page 110
4 From Negotiation to Rent Seeking, and Back? Patterns of State–Business Interaction and Fiscal Policy Reform in Jordan......Page 142
Part 2 Fiscality, Economic Reform, and the Role of Networks......Page 176
5 Nobody Having too Much to Answer for: Laissez-Faire, Networks, and Postwar Reconstruction in Lebanon......Page 178
6 Fiscal Trajectories in Morocco and Tunisia......Page 210
7 Participatory Development and Liberal Reforms in Tunisia: The Gradual Incorporation of Some Economic Networks......Page 232
Part 3 The Limits of Network-Based Approaches......Page 252
8 Challenges to Networks of Privilege in Morocco: Implications for Network Analysis......Page 254
9 Reconciling Privilege and Reform: Fiscal Policy in Egypt, 1991–2000......Page 290
About the Contributors......Page 306
Bibliography......Page 308
C......Page 338
F......Page 339
L......Page 340
P......Page 341
T......Page 342
Z......Page 343