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Contrary to other world regions, political regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remain largely authoritarian. While the search for explanations is still ongoing, Christian Neugebauer draws attention to a hitherto underresearched factor: economic liberalization. Being part of a global shift from state-led development towards structural adjustment in the economy, these policies also deeply affected the countries of the MENA region. This makes the resilience of authoritarianism in the region all the more puzzling, as a large part of the scientific community expected economic liberalization to undermine authoritarian regimes. Neugebauer strives to solve the puzzle with a comparative case study that covers four countries (Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, and Morocco) and their political regimes, from independence in the 1950s to the Arab Spring in 2011. He shows that two specific policies of economic liberalization might in fact have been relevant for regime stability: consumer-price liberalization and privatization.
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About the author
Christian Neugebauer was a PhD candidate and lecturer in political economy of the Middle East and North Africa at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS), University of Marburg, Germany. He currently works as a regional expert (Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey) for an institution of the private economy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economic Liberalization and Authoritarianism
Book Subtitle: A Comparative Political Economy of Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, and Morocco, 1950-2011
Authors: Christian Neugebauer
Series Title: Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-35639-2
Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-35638-5Published: 01 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-35639-2Published: 29 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2626-224X
Series E-ISSN: 2626-2258
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 653
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Middle Eastern Politics, African Politics, International Relations, Comparative Politics