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Business Politics in the Middle East (Paperback)
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Although most Arab countries remain authoritarian, many have
undergone a restructuring of state-society relations in which
lower- and middle-class interest groups have lost ground while big
business has benefited in terms of its integration into
policy-making and the opening of economic sectors that used to be
state-dominated. Arab businesses have also started taking on
aspects of public ser- vice provision in health, media and
education that used to be the domain of the state; they have also
become increasingly active in philanthropy. The 'Arab Spring,'
which is likely to lead to a more pluralistic political order,
makes it all the more important to understand business interests in
the Middle East, a segment of society that on the one hand has
often been close to the ancien regime, but on the other will play a
pivotal role in a future social contract. Among the topics
addressed by the authors are the role of business in recent regime
change; the political outlook of businessmen; the consequences of
economic liberalisation on the composition of business elites in
the Middle East; the role of the private sec- tor in orienting
government policies; lobbying of government by business interests
and the mechanisms by which governments seek to keep businesses
dependent on them.
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