ISBN:
0804778469
,
0804760004
,
9780804778466
,
9780804760003
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 206 S.
,
graph. Darst.
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
Uniform Title:
Niẓām al-qawī wa-al-dawlah al-ḍaʿīfah. 〈engl.〉
DDC:
336.62
Keywords:
Öffentliche Finanzen
;
Öffentliche Ausgaben
;
Öffentliche Schulden
;
Staatsquote
;
Diktatur
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Demokratisierung
;
Haushaltskonsolidierung
;
Ägypten
;
Finance, Public
;
Mubarak, Husni
;
Egypt Politics and government 1981-
;
Egypt Economic policy
;
Egypt Economic conditions 1981-
;
Egypt
;
Economic conditions
;
1981-
;
Ägypten
;
Finanzpolitik
;
Steuerpolitik
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Geschichte 1981-2011
Abstract:
Soliman (political economy and political science, American University in Cairo, Egypt) conducts a political-economic analysis of the regime of the recently ousted Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for 30 years until the Egyptian popular uprising of 2011. His central argument, influenced by both Marx and Weber, focuses on state finances. It distinguishes between the regime and the state and argues that Mubarak's political authoritarian rule systematically weakened the state, leading to fiscal crisis in which declining revenues from oil, the Suez Canal, and foreign aid prompted the growth of independent economic centers of power and consequent political shifts empowering a rising bourgeoisie who are contesting the power of the old ruling bureaucracy represented by Mubarak. (Annotation 2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- Growth of the state under Mubarak : follow the revenue trail -- Changes in the distribution of state revenues : security prevails -- The impact of the fiscal crisis on the relationship between central and local government : decentralization or fragmentation? -- From the rentier to the predatory state : transformations in the mechanisms for generating public revenues and their political consequences -- The end of the rentier/caretaker state and the rise of Egyptian capitalism : a fiscal infrastructure for democracy? -- Epilogue.
Note:
Literaturverz. S.191-201. - Index. - Translated from the Arabic
URL:
http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=16317
URL:
http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=16317
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