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Egyptian Social Contract : A History of State-Middle Class Relations by Relli Shechter (2024, Trade Paperback)

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The Egyptian Social Contract: A History of State-Middle Class Relations by Shechter, Relli [Paperback]

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PublisherEdinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press

ISBN-101399510312

ISBN-139781399510318

eBay Product ID (ePID)11070916044

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Number of Pages248 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameEgyptian Social Contract : a History of State-Middle Class Relations

Publication Year2024

SubjectModern / 21st Century, Modern / 20th Century, Social History, Middle East / Egypt (See Also Ancient / Egypt)

TypeTextbook

AuthorRelli Shechter

Subject AreaHistory

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsThe term "social contract" has been a staple of writings on Egyptian politics for half a century. With precision and an intrepid willingness to re-examine long-accepted claims, Shechter shows that the contract, its origin and evolution, and even the identity and behavior of the contracting parties, have been profoundly misunderstood., In this insightful volume, Shechter (Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Israel) advances historians' understandings of modern Egyptian political history [...] Recommended., Relli Shechter has provided a carefully reasoned, well-documented, in-depth political economic study that provides unparalleled insight into the historical making of the current economic and social crisis in Egypt. By using the concept of the social contract he has theoretically broken new ground in understanding Egyptian state-citizen relations that moves beyond the conventional authoritarian bargain.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal323.32220962

Table Of ContentPrefaceIntroduction: The Social Contract as HistoryBeyond the authoritarian pactThe social origins of the social contractGlobal best practices EgyptianizedMethodology and sourcesPart One: From Social Reform to Social Justice, 1922-1952Chapter 1: A Liberal Social Contract Productivist welfareEntangling education and state employment Constitutionalizing the social contractChapter 2: The Making of an Effendi Social ContractBetween "socialism" and "social justice"A hierarchy of social justiceJustice implementedPart Two: The Social Contract in Nasser's Effendi State, 1952-1970Chapter 3: Old Regime, New RegimeThe pashas' constitutionThe birth of Arab socialism?Statism: bureaucratization and regulationChapter 4: Old Society, New SocietyThe new effendisFrom the effendiyya to the massesPeasants and workersPart Three: The Tortuous Search for a New Social Contract, 1970-2011Chapter 5: The Social Contract Broken TwiceThe Corrective RevolutionOil-boom populismThe 1977 Food UprisingSocioeconomic mobility and its discontentsChapter 6: Planning a New Social ContractThe birth of the new social contractPlanning as its own goalChapter 7: The Problem with the New Social Contract"Farewell to the middle class"The fault lines of economic reformA swing of the political pendulumAn informal status quoConclusion: Old Social Contract, New Social ContractBibliography

SynopsisExamines state-middle class reciprocities in the making, persistence and failure of the Egyptian social contract, The Egyptian Social Contract explores the intricacies of the relationship between the state and its citizens, from the establishment of the semi-independent Egyptian nation in 1922 until the 2011 Uprising. The book studies how and why a social contract that had been reformed in the aftermath of World War II became the core of state-citizen relations under President Nasser. It further explores the long and tortuous search for a new social contract in Egypt since the 1970s. Relli Shechter looks at how this social contract channelled socioeconomic development over time, creating an Egyptian middle-class society. Shechter probes a political economy in which class vision and interests in development intertwined with the rise and entrenchment of authoritarianism. The perseverance of this social contract has mostly inhibited socioeconomic and political reforms, or the making of a new social contract, in Egypt. Such reforms would have challenged Egypt's ruling elite, and no less so its middle-class society.

LC Classification NumberHT690.E3S5345 2024