The Redeployment of State Power in the Southern Mediterranean - Implications of Neoliberal Reforms for Local Governance (Paperback)

The effects of neoliberal economic reforms in the Southern Mediterranean are now widely regarded as a main underlying cause of the Arab uprisings. An often neglected dimension is that of the reforms' implications for local governance. The contributions to this edited volume examine how state power is being re-articulated but also challenged at sub-national levels in Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon and Turkey. They explore the effects of neoliberal economic and local governance reforms such as decentralization, public-private partnerships, and outsourcing in the area of public service delivery, poverty alleviation, and labor market reforms on local patronage networks, public accountability, and state-society relations. The findings show that such reforms are often subordinated to established patterns of political contestation among actors who seize on the opportunities that reforms offer to advance their political agendas, thereby illustrating the local specificity of 'actually existing neoliberalisms'. The book thus fills an important knowledge gap by combining public policy and management theories with those on patron-client networks and public accountability at the local level, and situating them within the critical literature on neoliberalism. This book was published as a special issue of Mediterranean Politics.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2018
First published:	2013
Editors:	Sylvia I. Bergh
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-59445-6
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Local government > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	1-138-59445-8
Barcode:	9781138594456

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