Social Dictatorships: The Political Economy of the Welfare State in the Middle East and North Africa

ISBN-13: 9780198834274 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 384 str.

Ferdinand Eibl

Opis

This book provides an overview of welfare provision and social policies in authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and North Africa.

Recenzje

When scholars mix qualitative and quantitative methods, one of them usually gets short-changed. Ferdinand Eibl's book is a rare exception to this rule: his field research is of as high quality as his quantitative analysis. He has undertaken remarkable detective work through interviews with decision-makers and access to (now closed off) national archives, getting as close to elite decision-making as is humanly possible in authoritarian systems. At the same time, he has collected unique primary data to identify the long-term distributional consequences of these decisions across the MENA region. His findings are of great relevance for scholars of both authoritarianism and social policy.

O autorze

Ferdinand Eibl is a Lecturer in Political Economy at King's College London. He was previously a Postdoctoral Research Officer at the London School of Economics, and his research focuses on the political economy of authoritatian rule in the Middle East and North Africa, in particular in the areas of distributive politics, cronyism, and the political economy of coup-proofing.