Group Conflict and Political Mobilization in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf : Rethinking the Rentier State.

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The oil-producing states of the Arab Gulf are said to sink or swim on their capacity for political appeasement through economic redistribution. Yet, during the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring, in Bahrain and all across the Arab Gulf, ordinary citizens showed an unexpected enthusiasm for politic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gengler, Justin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2015.
Colección:Indiana series in Middle East studies.
Temas:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Research.
Economic history
Politics and government
Social conditions
Social policy
Bahrain > Politics and government.
Bahrain > Economic conditions.
Bahrain > Social conditions.
Bahrain > Social policy.
Bahrain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The oil-producing states of the Arab Gulf are said to sink or swim on their capacity for political appeasement through economic redistribution. Yet, during the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring, in Bahrain and all across the Arab Gulf, ordinary citizens showed an unexpected enthusiasm for political protest directed against governments widely assumed to have co-opted their support with oil revenues. Justin Gengler draws on the first-ever mass political survey in Bahrain to demonstrate that neither is the state willing to offer all citizens the same bargain, nor are all citizens willing to ac.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (418 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780253016867
025301686X

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