POLI 341 Lecture Notes - Structural Adjustment, Human Capital, Status Quo
5 Sep 2013
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What role might the gulf states play in the emerging. The economic trajectory of rapid economic growth followed by slowdown was triggered by the different models used by states. The welfare state model was a useful vessel to obtain legitimacy within and without yet it was doomed to fail. There was strong economic growth for a lot of these states in 1950s-1970s: 1980s, it slowed down. 80s, had the iran-iraq war iraq-kuwait war a lot of regional conflict . opec oil crisis . economic disparity (egypt a good example) . deficient political system long term rentier states. What this does is generate legitimacy and bridge the disjuncture between state and society. Centralized powernot like the decentralized bottom up economy. It is not a social contract but a complete dependence on the state less of an incentive to exercise political voice. Your livelihood is tied to this model decrease in political participation, lower in civil liberties less incentive to challenge the status quo.
