The MENA region has long presented abundant puzzles for theories of comparative political economy, from high inequality to the seemingly paradoxical effects of oil wealth. The events of the past decade, however, have catalyzed a momentous rethinking in how political institutions and economic development affect one another, making the region a testing ground for new ideas. For instance, contemporary underdevelopment may be path-dependent, the result of centuries-old legal structures and other distant historical causes. Moreover, debates about the role of the state and welfare policies boil down not just to material distributions but to political trade-offs reflecting authoritarian commitments as well—something especially prevalent with the r...
Free zones (FZs) in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries displayed substantial variation in the ...
This chapter examines the security implications of Middle East political economy. It argues that pol...
The political economy of oil and the crisis of the Arab state system / Daniel Atzori. FEEM, 2013, 26...
For many developing countries, economic development and prosperity were goals and commitments of the...
The Middle Eastern political economy has long been studied through the prism of the resource curse—t...
Oil rent has created a regional dynamic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) whereby major pol...
Political science predicts that monarchies lack the flexibility to modernize without losing power: "...
"This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and No...
The literature on regime change in the MENA region had claimed the occurrence of political liberaliz...
With the largest proportion of autocracies, the Middle East is one of the few regions in the world ...
Economic theory suggests that inequality between nations is c ausedby a failure to strike an optimal...
Comparing the pace and extent of economic development across the developing regions yields that Arab...
This paper investigates the socio-economic causes that have led to the recent political instability ...
Rents form a relatively high share of GDP in developing countries (from 15-50%), so that differences...
Abstract The paper deals with the political economy of inequality in the distribution of consumption...
Free zones (FZs) in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries displayed substantial variation in the ...
This chapter examines the security implications of Middle East political economy. It argues that pol...
The political economy of oil and the crisis of the Arab state system / Daniel Atzori. FEEM, 2013, 26...
For many developing countries, economic development and prosperity were goals and commitments of the...
The Middle Eastern political economy has long been studied through the prism of the resource curse—t...
Oil rent has created a regional dynamic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) whereby major pol...
Political science predicts that monarchies lack the flexibility to modernize without losing power: "...
"This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and No...
The literature on regime change in the MENA region had claimed the occurrence of political liberaliz...
With the largest proportion of autocracies, the Middle East is one of the few regions in the world ...
Economic theory suggests that inequality between nations is c ausedby a failure to strike an optimal...
Comparing the pace and extent of economic development across the developing regions yields that Arab...
This paper investigates the socio-economic causes that have led to the recent political instability ...
Rents form a relatively high share of GDP in developing countries (from 15-50%), so that differences...
Abstract The paper deals with the political economy of inequality in the distribution of consumption...
Free zones (FZs) in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries displayed substantial variation in the ...
This chapter examines the security implications of Middle East political economy. It argues that pol...
The political economy of oil and the crisis of the Arab state system / Daniel Atzori. FEEM, 2013, 26...