The Egyptian Social Contract
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-1031-8 (ISBN)
The Egyptian Social Contract explores the intricacies of the relationship between the state and its citizens, from the establishment of the semi-independent Egyptian nation in 1922 until the 2011 Uprising. The book studies how and why a social contract that had been reformed in the aftermath of World War II became the core of state–citizen relations under President Nasser. It further explores the long and tortuous search for a new social contract in Egypt since the 1970s.
Relli Shechter looks at how this social contract channelled socioeconomic development over time, creating an Egyptian middle-class society. Shechter probes a political economy in which class vision and interests in development intertwined with the rise and entrenchment of authoritarianism. The perseverance of this social contract has mostly inhibited socioeconomic and political reforms, or the making of a new social contract, in Egypt. Such reforms would have challenged Egypt’s ruling elite, and no less so its middle-class society.
Relli Shechter is an Associate Professor and Chair, The Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He received his PhD from Harvard University. His most recent book is The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class: Socio-Economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Preface
Introduction: The Social Contract as History
Beyond the authoritarian pact
The social origins of the social contract
Global best practices Egyptianized
Methodology and sources
Part One: From Social Reform to Social Justice, 1922-1952
Chapter 1: A Liberal Social Contract
Productivist welfare
Entangling education and state employment
Constitutionalizing the social contract
Chapter 2: The Making of an Effendi Social Contract
Between "socialism" and "social justice"
A hierarchy of social justice
Justice implemented
Part Two: The Social Contract in Nasser's Effendi State, 1952-1970
Chapter 3: Old Regime, New Regime
The pashas’ constitution
The birth of Arab socialism?
Statism: bureaucratization and regulation
Chapter 4: Old Society, New Society
The new effendis
From the effendiyya to the masses
Peasants and workers
Part Three: The Tortuous Search for a New Social Contract, 1970-2011
Chapter 5: The Social Contract Broken Twice
The Corrective Revolution
Oil-boom populism
The 1977 Food Uprising
Socioeconomic mobility and its discontents
Chapter 6: Planning a New Social Contract
The birth of the new social contract
Planning as its own goal
Chapter 7: The Problem with the New Social Contract
"Farewell to the middle class"
The fault lines of economic reform
A swing of the political pendulum
An informal status quo
Conclusion: Old Social Contract, New Social Contract
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.07.2024 |
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| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-1031-2 / 1399510312 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-1031-8 / 9781399510318 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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