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The Redeployment of State Power in the Southern Mediterranean

The effects of neoliberal economic reforms in the Southern Mediterranean are now widely regarded as a main underlying cause of the Arab uprisings. An often neglected dimension is that of the reforms implications for local governance. The contributions to this edited volume examine how state power is being re-articulated but also challenged at sub-national levels in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Turkey. They explore the effects of neoliberal economic and local governance reforms such as decentralization, public-private partnerships, and outsourcing in the area of public service delivery, poverty alleviation, and labor market reforms on local patronage networks, public accountability, and state-society relations. The findings show that such reforms are often subordinated to established patterns of political contestation among actors who seize on the opportunities that reforms offer to advance their political agendas, thereby illustrating the local specificity of actually existing neoliberalisms.

The book thus fills an important knowledge gap by combining public policy and management theories with those on patron-client networks and public accountability at the local level, and situating them within the critical literature on neoliberalism.

This book was previously published as a themed issue of Mediterranean Politics.

Sylvia I. Bergh is a Swedish national, working since 2007 as (Senior) Lecturer in Development Management and Governance at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. She holds a D.Phil. in Development Studies from the University of Oxford and has worked for the World Bank in Washington D.C. and Morocco.

The scholarly analysis of what is happening in the wake of the political protests in the Arab World in 2011 is just beginning to emerge. This book, being one of the first, focuses on how the state is being reconfigured at the local level. As such, it goes beyond the conventional focus on regime change at the national level. It is empirically rich and is a valuable contribution to the academic and policy communities interested in local governance.

Goran Hyden,Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Political Science, University of Florida, U.S.A.

This book is an important contribution to understanding the dynamics of public service reform in the Southern Mediterranean. Its special contribution is that it addresses the political effects of what appear to be only managerial reforms: decentralization, performance incentives, contracting out and privatization. Fascinatingly, it shows how such neo-liberal reforms far from threatening established interests are adopted by existing national and local elites and incorporated into new patronage networks and political alliances. Despite the stasis that this implies, the book argues that these localized reforms also fuelled the resistance to state power at sub-national level that characterized the Arab uprising.

Richard Batley,Emeritus Professor, International Development Department, School of Government and Society, University of Birmingham, U.K.

This volume is a significant contribution to our understanding of local politics in the Southern Mediterranean, and to the political economy of local governance in an era of neoliberal reform. Unlike the vast majority of work on the effects of economic reform in the Arab world, which focuses almost exclusively on national or regional level phenomena, Bergh and her colleagues skilfully unpack the ways in which transnational processes of economic globalization and marketization shape political dynamics at the local level in settings that range from rural Morocco to cosmopolitan Cairo to municipalities in Turkey. The result is a set of empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated studies that deserve to be widely read.

Dr Steven Heydemann,Senior Adviser for Middle East Initiatives, United States Institute for Peace (USIP), U.S.A.

The Redeployment of State Power in the Southern Mediterranean

Implications of Neoliberal Reforms for Local Governance

Edited by
Sylvia I. Bergh

First published 2013
by Routledge
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This book is a reproduction of Mediterranean Politics, vol. 17, issue 3. The Publisher requests to those authors who may be citing this book to state, also, the bibliographical details of the special issue on which the book was based.

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ISBN13: 978-0-415-83543-5

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Publisher's Note
The publisher would like to make readers aware that the chapters in this book may be referred to as articles as they are identical to the articles published in the special issue. The publisher accepts responsibility for any inconsistencies that may have arisen in the course of preparing this volume for print.

Contents

Sylvia I. Bergh

Mohamed Fahmy Menza

Zeynep Kadirbeyolu & Bilgesu Smer

Janine A. Clark

Mohamed Said Saadi

Christle Alls

Sylvia I. Bergh

Asa Maron

The chapters in this book were originally published in Mediterranean Politics, volume 17, issue 3 (November 2012). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

Introduction: Researching the effects of neoliberal reforms on local governance in the Southern Mediterranean

Sylvia I. Bergh

Mediterranean Politics, volume 17, issue 3 (November 2012) pp. 303321

Neoliberal Reform and Socio-Structural Reconfiguration in Cairos Popular Quarters: The Rise of the Lesser Notables in Misr Al Qadima

Mohamed Fahmy Menza

Mediterranean Politics, volume 17, issue 3 (November 2012) pp. 322339

The Neoliberal Transformation of Local Government in Turkey and the Contracting Out of Municipal Services: Implications for Public Accountability

Zeynep Kadirbeyolu & Bilgesu Smer

Mediterranean Politics, volume 17, issue 3 (November 2012) pp. 340357

Municipalities Go to Market: Economic Reform and Political Contestation in Jordan

Janine A. Clark

Mediterranean Politics, volume 17, issue 3 (November 2012) pp. 358375

Water Privatization Dynamics in Morocco: A Critical Assessment of the Casablancan Case

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