The Dilemma of Authoritarian Local Governance in Egypt / / Hani Awad.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Awad, Hani,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 11 B/W illustrations 8 B/W tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction – Centralised Structures and Decentralised Politics: The Problem of Researching Authoritarian Local Governance --; 1 Political Decentralisation in Centralised Institutional Contexts: The Dilemma of Authoritarian Local Governance in Egypt --; 2 Centralised and Decentralised: The Authoritarian Upgrading of the Egyptian System of Local Governance --; 3 Alternative Local Politics: The Rise and the Fall of the Daʾwa Movement --; 4 Clannism without Clans: Local Governance and the Ascendance of Kin-based Political Mobilisation --; 5 System Collapsed: The Advent of Revolutionary Local Politics --; Epilogue – A Regime Trusts No Grassroots: Local Governance under Sisi: Securitisation, Untrust and Uncertainty --; Appendices --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781399502559; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110994513; 9783110994407; 9783110780390
• DOI: 10.1515/9781399502559
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hani Awad.

Examines how centralised authoritarian regimes upgrade their system of local governanceOffers a comprehensive understanding of the way that the Egyptian authoritarian regime has upgraded its system of local governance since NasserUses a neo-intuitionalist approach to develop a theoretical definition to understand the process of the authoritarian upgrading of the system of local governance Maps out the motivations for the process of authoritarian upgrading of local governance, as well as its benefits for authoritarianismAnalyses of the role of the state ruling party, focusing on the changing relationships between the local state and the Arab Socialist Union (1962-1978) and the former National Democratic Party (1978-2011) Includes a microanalysis based on extensive fieldwork in Kerdasa, a city and an administrative centre located in the south-west of the Giza Governorate in the Greater Cairo peri-urban fringe The authoritarian upgrading process in Egypt has enabled the regime to have a more effective dominance in local politics and to enhance its political control. However, its strategies failed to overcome the weakness of system mobilisation functions, which reflected the authoritarian dilemma of bridging the macro (the national) and the micro (the local). Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Hani Awad explores the formal and informal decentralisation strategies employed under three regimes (Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak) to upgrade the Egyptian system of local governance without giving up power or democratising local governments.