The Egyptian Social Contract: A History of State-Middle Class Relations

ISBN-13: 9781399510301 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

SHECHTER RELLI

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PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: THE SOCIAL CONTRACT AS HISTORY; Beyond the authoritarian pact; The social origins of the social contract;Global best practices Egyptianized; Methodology and sources; PART ONE: FROM SOCIAL REFORM TO SOCIAL JUSTICE, 1922–1952; 1. A LIBERAL SOCIAL CONTRACT; Productivist welfare; Entangling education and state employment; the social contract; 2. THE MAKING OF AN EFFENDI SOCIAL CONTRACT; Between “socialism” and “social justice”; hierarchy of social justice; Justice implemented; PART TWO: THE SOCIAL CONTRACT IN NASSER’S EFFENDI STATE, 1952–1970; 3. OLD REGIME, NEW REGIME ; The pashas’ constitution; The birth of Arab socialism?; Statism: bureaucratization and regulation; 4. OLD SOCIETY, NEW SOCIETY; The new effendis; From the effendiyya to the masses; Peasants and workers; THREE: THE TORTUOUS SEARCH FOR A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT, 1970–2011; 5. THE SOCIAL CONTRACT BROKEN TWICE; The Corrective Revolution; Oil-boom populism; The 1977 Food Uprising; Socioeconomic mobility and its discontents; 6. PLANNING A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT; The birth of the new social contract; Planning as its own goal; 7. THE PROBLEM WITH THE NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT;“Farewell to the middle class”; The fault lines of economic reform; A swing of the political pendulum; An informal status quo CONCLUSION: OLD SOCIAL CONTRACT, NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT; BIBLIOGRAPHY.