The Redeployment of State Power in the Southern Mediterranean: Implications of Neoliberal Reforms for Local Governance

ISBN-13: 9781138594456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 160 str.

Sylvia I. Bergh

Opis

The contributions to this volume seek to unravel the effects of neoliberal reforms in the areas of municipal public service delivery, poverty alleviation, and labor market reforms on the reconfiguration of state power and local elites in various countries of the Mediterranean.

This book was published as a special issue of Mediterranean Politics.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Researching the effects of neoliberal reforms on local governance in the Southern Mediterranean  2. Neoliberal Reform and Socio-Structural Reconfiguration in Cairo’s Popular Quarters: The Rise of the Lesser Notables in Misr Al Qadima  3. The Neoliberal Transformation of Local Government in Turkey and the Contracting Out of Municipal Services: Implications for Public Accountability  4. Municipalities Go to Market: Economic Reform and Political Contestation in Jordan  5. Water Privatization Dynamics in Morocco: A Critical Assessment of the Casablancan Case  6. The Private Sector and Local Elites: The Experience of Public–Private Partnership in the Water Sector in Tripoli, Lebanon  7 .‘Inclusive’ Neoliberalism, Local Governance Reforms and the Redeployment of State Power: The Case of the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH) in Morocco   8. Conflicting Articulations of Citizenship under a Neoliberal State Project: The Contested Implementation of the Israeli Workfare Programme

O autorze

Sylvia I. Bergh is a Swedish national, working since 2007 as Senior Lecturer in Development Management and Governance at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. She holds a D.Phil. in Development Studies from the University of Oxford and has worked for the World Bank in Washington D.C. and Morocco.