An Arab Path to Democracy?

Brumberg, Daniel

doi:10.1353/jod.1990.0070

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“…The present paper proposes and tests the assumption that the failure of MENA countries to sustain structural transformation, as well as to reform their political economy in a timely way, may well be explained by a single cause: their authoritarian-redistributive social contract. More specifically, we argue that in most MENA countries, the post-Independence social contract, generally described as a highly resistant mix of restricted political freedom and redistributive and interventionist state policies (Brumberg, 1990(Brumberg, , 2003Vitalis and Heydemann, 2000;Vanderwalle, 2003;Yousef, 2004), (1) had detrimental effects on structural change, thereby breeding social frustration and (2) has produced a political economy hostile to the institutional reforms that could have shifted the region's economies towards a more dynamic trend of growth and modernization.…”

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“…In the wake of their Independence, MENA countries had to face strong socioeconomic inequalities: high concentration of land ownership, unequal access to economic resources and education, low literacy and health levels. Those initial conditions, combined with the then widespread diffusion of the welfare state model, called for the establishment of highly typical social contracts by which MENA populations traded restrictions in political freedom for socioeconomic security (Brumberg, 1990;Vitalis and Heydemann, 2000;Vanderwalle, 2003).…”

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“Fire in Cairo”: Authoritarian–Redistributive Social Contracts, Structural Change, and the Arab Spring

Rougier

2016

World Development

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Fire in Cairo: Contrat social autoritaire-redistributif, changement structurel et le « printemps arabe » Résumé Dans cet article, nous soutenons que le printemps arabe peut être compris comme une attaque contre le contrat social de l'après-indépendance qui a prévalu dans la plupart des pays du Moyen Orient et d'Afrique du Nord. Nous montrons que ce contrat social, caractérisé par la combinaison de niveaux élevés de redistribution et de faible responsabilisation politique et inclusion sociale peut expliquer (1) la lenteur de changement structurel par rapport au reste du monde et (2) l'économie politique spécifique qui ont déclenché le mécontentement social parmi les jeunes et les larges cohortes de travailleurs instruits, et finalement jeté les populations dans les rues. Plus précisément, il est démontré que l'autoritarisme réduit l'effet positif de la redistribution sur le changement structurel, cet effet étant plus fort encore lorsque l'endogénéité probable du contrat social à la structure économique est contrôlée. Nous décrivons également l'économie politique spécifique qui en empêchant la réforme du contrat social a favorisé la stabilité de l'équilibre de faible diversification / faible démocratie présenté par la plupart des économies des pays arabes.

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“Fire in Cairo”: Authoritarian–Redistributive Social Contracts, Structural Change, and the Arab Spring

Rougier

2016

World Development

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“…"The democratic revolution that has swept through Latin America and Eastern Europe has begun to shake the edifice of authoritarianism in the Arab world," he told us. 1 Brumberg was no Panglossian, of course. He noted that "the allure of authoritarianism remains strong in some quarters of the Arab world," and that the norms of compromise and toleration so essential to democracy were in short supply in the region.…”

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Has the Door Closed on Arab Democracy?

Masoud¹

2015

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“…Weyland (2012: 928) cites Brownlee et al (2012), who argues 'in only one Arab country, Tunisia, did the domestic balance of power favor challengers during the transition.' Brumberg is predominantly cited for his justifications of the failure of democracy in the region, in his notion of 'liberal autocracy' (Brumberg, 1990), and his assumptions that these autocracies are unsustainable. For instance, Carothers (cited in Pace and Cavatorta, 2012) argues that '[t]he questioning of the validity of the paradigm of authoritarian resilience has meant that the theoretical assumptions of the democratization paradigm seem to have found a new lease on life after the criticism of the late 1990s and early 2000s.…”

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Who frames the debate on the Arab uprisings? Analysis of Arabic, English, and French academic scholarship

AlMaghlouth

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Cointet³

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International Sociology

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Since 2010, there has been a proliferation of literature (newspaper articles and scholarly publications) on the recent uprisings in some Arab countries. This article focuses on the way the academic articles have perceived the Arab uprisings and the ways in which we portray them in scientific discourse, taking into account the social forces that come into play in the production of knowledge. In line with Bruno Latour, this study analyzes (1) what knowledge on the Arab uprisings is made of; (2) who produces and who frames the debate (network of authors); (3) semiotic analysis; and (4) quantitative measures of sociological markers,' such as discipline, language, and institutional affiliation. The study is based on a database of around 519 articles (from Web of Science, Scopus, E-Marefa, Cairn) dealing with the Arab uprisings from January 2011 up to now.Il y a eu depuis 2010 une prolifération de littérature (articles de presse et publications scientifiques) sur les révoltes de ces dernières années dans certains pays arabes. Cet article est consacré à la façon dont les articles scientifiques ont perçu les révoltes arabes et à la façon dont nous les décrivons dans le discours scientifique, en tenant compte des forces sociales qui entrent en jeu dans la production du savoir. Dans la lignée de Bruno Latour, cet article analyse (1) de quoi est composé le savoir sur les révoltes arabes ; (2) qui produit et délimite le débat (le réseau d’auteurs) ; (3) l’analyse sémiotique ; et (4) les mesures quantitatives de « marqueurs sociologiques » tels que la discipline, la langue et l’affiliation institutionnelle. L’étude s’appuie sur une base de données de quelque 519 articles (tirés de Web of Science, Scopus, E-Marefa, Cairn) qui traitent des révoltes arabes de janvier 2011 à aujourd’hui

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An Arab Path to Democracy?

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“Fire in Cairo”: Authoritarian–Redistributive Social Contracts, Structural Change, and the Arab Spring

“Fire in Cairo”: Authoritarian–Redistributive Social Contracts, Structural Change, and the Arab Spring

Has the Door Closed on Arab Democracy?

Who frames the debate on the Arab uprisings? Analysis of Arabic, English, and French academic scholarship

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