Clark Local Politics in Jordan and Morocco

Strategies of Centralization and Decentralization
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54501-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics

Janine A. Clark examines why Morocco decentralized while Jordan did not and evaluates the impact of their divergent paths in order to explain how authoritarian regimes can use decentralization reforms to consolidate power. Local Politics in Jordan and Morocco challenges our understanding of authoritarian regimes’ resilience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark, Janine A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Coalition Building and the Social Relations That Support Authoritarian Regimes
2. Centralization and “Decentralization” in Jordan
3. Decentralization, Co-optation, and Regime Legitimation in Morocco
4. The Destabilizing Effects of Centralization
5. Elite Capture and Regime Stabilization in Morocco
6. Morocco’s Opposition Party, the PJD
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Clark Janine A.:
Janine A. Clark is an associate professor of political science at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Her publications include Islam, Social Welfare, and the Middle Class: Networks, Activism, and Charity in Egypt, Yemen and Jordan.Janine A. Clark is associate professor of political science at the University of Guelph. She is the author of Islam, Charity, and Activism: Middle-Class Networks and Social Welfare in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen (2004) and coeditor of Economic Liberalization, Democratization, and Civil Society in the Developing World (2000).