Group Conflict and Political Mobilization in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf
Rethinking the Rentier State
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Word Count
56,500 words, Guess
Page Count
226 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28558169M
- ISBN-139780253016744
- OCLC Control Number893452875
- Library of Congress Control Number2015009198
Classifications
- LCCHD9576
- LCCJQ1846.A69 P64 2015
Description
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.
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