Indiana Series in Middle East Studies Group Conflict and Political Mobilization in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf: Rethinking the Rentier State
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0253016746
ISBN 13
9780253016744
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Unknown
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Publication Year
2015
Publisher
Pages
226
Subject
Social conflict - Bahrain; Social conflict - Saudi Arabia; Politics - Bahrain; Politics - Saudi Arabia
Series Name
Abstract
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 accept it. Instead, shared social and religious identities offer a viable basis for mass political coordination. Challenging the prevailing rentier interpretation of political life in the Gulf states, Gengler offers new empirical evidence and a new conceptual framework for understanding the attitudes of ordinary citizens. - from Amazon
Description
226 p; 24 cm
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
Number of Copies
1
