TY - BOOK AU - Kienle, Eberhard, ed. TI - Politics from above, politics from below: the Middle East in the age of economic reform SN - 0863569498 U1 - 320.9 PY - 2003/// CY - London PB - Saqi Books KW - Middle East KW - Politics and government KW - Economic development--Political aspects KW - Economic policy N1 - Capitalism, democracy, the 'public sphere' and globalization / Sami Zubaida -- Liberalizing economies and organizing women: changing norms and resource allocations in the Arab Mediterranean / Valentine M. Moghadam -- Entering the 'virtuous circle': the strength of democratic designs in Egypt and Morocco / Jean-Noël Ferrié -- Norms and distributive processes in Egypt's new regime of capitalist accumulation / Enid Hill -- Meso-level structures as preconditions for collective action and social integration / Ulrich G. Wurzel -- Modernizing agriculture or underdeveloping the countryside? Competing views on policy and farming in Egypt / Ray Bush -- Domesticating economic liberalization: controlled market-building in contemporary Egypt / Eberhard Kienle -- What constitutes business rationalisty in Egypt at the end of the twentieth century: a political economy approach / Roger Owen -- A liberal interpretation of a socialist constitution: the Eyptian Supreme Constitutional Court and privatization of the public sector / Baudouin Dupret -- The informal social pact: the state and the urban poor in Cairo / Cilja Harders -- Decentring social services and recentring normative authority: Mustafa Mahmud's social and public Islam / Amrando Salvatore -- A moral order reversed? Agricultural land changes hands, again / Reem Saad -- A mirror of political culture in contemporary Egypt: divisions and debates among women activists / Nadje Sadig al-Ali -- The local deconstruction of global events, news and discoures: case studies from Egypt / Amr Hamzawi -- How the centre sees the muhajirin of knowledge: normative processes vs demographic evidence / Fanny Colonna -- Public means to private ends: state building and power in post-war Lebanon / Reinoud Leenders ER -