Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats : : Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia /

Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats : : Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia / / Steffen Hertog.

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In Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi Arabia to date, Steffen Hertog uncovers an untold history of how the elite rivalries and whims of half a century ago have shaped today's Saudi state and are reflected in its policies. Starting in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Hertog, Steffen,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2010]
©2011
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 11 charts/graphs, 2 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acronyms
  • Dramatis Personae
  • Introduction
  • 1. Unpacking the Saudi State
  • Part I: Oil and History
  • 2. Oil Fiefdoms in Flux: The New Saudi State in the 1950s
  • 3. The Emerging Bureaucratic Order under Faisal
  • 4. The 1970s Boom
  • Part II: Policy-Making in Segmented Clientelism
  • 5. The Foreign Investment Act
  • 6. Eluding the "Saudization" of Labor Markets
  • 7. The Fragmented Domestic Negotiations over WTO Adaptation
  • 8. Comparing the Case Studies, Comparing Saudi Arabia
  • References
  • Index

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