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Online-Ressource (418 p)
ISBN:
9780253016744
Series Statement:
Indiana Series in Middle East Studies
Content:
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
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Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Bahrain, the First Post-Oil State; 1 Group-Based Political Mobilization in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf; 2 Al-Fātiḥ wa al-Maftūḥ: The Case of Sunni-Shi'i Relations in Bahrain; 3 Religion and Politics in Bahrain; 4 Surveying Bahrain; 5 Rentier Theory and Rentier Reality; 6 Political Diversification in the Age of Regime Insecurity; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253016867
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253016744
Additional Edition:
Print version Group Conflict and Political Mobilization in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf : Rethinking the Rentier State
Language:
English
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