@article{1443021,
      author = {Neugebauer, Christian.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1443021},
      title = {Economic liberalization and authoritarianism : a  comparative political economy of Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan,  and Morocco, 1950-2011 /},
      publisher = {Springer VS,},
      abstract = {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. About the author Christian Neugebauer was a  PhD candidate and lecturer in political economy of the  Middle East and North Africa at the Center for Near and  Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS), University of Marburg,  Germany. He currently works as a regional expert (Middle  East, North Africa, and Turkey) for an institution of the  private economy.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-35639-2},
      recid = {1443021},
      pages = {1 online resource (668 pages)},
      address = {Wiesbaden, Germany :},
      year = {2022},
}