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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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