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

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-34
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
The Formation and Development of Economic Networks in Syria: Implications for Economic and Fiscal Reforms, 1986–2000....Pages 37-76
The Whales of the Nile: Networks, Businessmen, and Bureaucrats During the Era of Privatization in Egypt....Pages 77-100
Patterns of Resistance: Economic Actors and Fiscal Policy Reform in Egypt in the 1990s....Pages 101-131
From Negotiation to Rent Seeking, and Back? Patterns of State—Business Interaction and Fiscal Policy Reform in Jordan....Pages 133-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Nobody Having too Much to Answer for: Laissez-Faire, Networks, and Postwar Reconstruction in Lebanon....Pages 169-200
Fiscal Trajectories in Morocco and Tunisia....Pages 201-222
Participatory Development and Liberal Reforms in Tunisia: The Gradual Incorporation of Some Economic Networks....Pages 223-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Challenges to Networks of Privilege in Morocco: Implications for Network Analysis....Pages 245-279
Reconciling Privilege and Reform: Fiscal Policy in Egypt, 1991–2000....Pages 281-296
Back Matter....Pages 297-334