Federalism And Decentralization In The Contemporary Middle East
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Author | : Aslı Ü. Bâli |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2022-12-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108831230 |
The first book in English on the law and politics of federalism and decentralization in the MENA region.
Author | : Aslı Ü. Bâli |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2022-12-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108924409 |
This volume, the first of its kind in the English language, examines the law and politics of federalism and decentralization in the Middle East and North Africa. Comprised of eleven case studies examining the experience across the region, together with essays by leading scholars providing comparative and theoretical perspectives and a synthetic conclusion by the co-editors, the volume offers a textured portrait of the dilemmas of decentralization during a period of sweeping transition in the region. The collection addresses an important gap in the comparative decentralization literature, which has largely neglected the MENA region. Both retrospective and forward-looking in orientation, the book is a valuable resource not only for scholars of comparative politics, constitutional design, and Middle East studies, but also for policy makers evaluating the feasibility and efficacy of decentralization as a vehicle for improving governance and responding to identity conflict in any part of the world.
Author | : Andrea Pin |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2024-09-16 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004533222 |
The volume compares the efforts to instil the values and practices of the rule of law in the Middle East in the early twenty-first century with their disappointing performances in terms of safety, human rights, and, especially, religious freedom. It zooms in on Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iraq to argue that international interventions and local initiatives underestimated the ethno-religious mosaic of these countries and their political and constitutional culture. The standard notion of the rule of law values individualism, equality, rights, and courts, which hardly fit the makeup of the Middle East. Securing stability and protecting religious freedom in the region requires compromising on the rule of law; the consociational model of constitutionalism would have better chances of achieving them.
Author | : Thomas Demmelhuber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021 |
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ISBN | : 9783848782734 |
Author | : Olgun Akbulut |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2019-07-08 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004405453 |
This volume, Minority Self-Government in Europe and the Middle East: From Theory to Practice, is novel from several perspectives. It combines theory with facts on the ground, going beyond legal perspectives without neglecting existing laws and their implementation. Theoretical discussions transcend examining existing autonomy models in certain regions. It offers new models in the field, discussing such critical themes as environmentalism. Traditional concepts such as self-determination and well-known successful autonomy examples, including the Åland Islands, Basque and Catalonian models, are examined from different perspectives. Some chapters in this volume focus on certain regions (including Turkey, Syria, and Iraq) which have only recently received scholarly attention. Chapters complement one another in terms of their theoretical inputs and outputs from the field.
Author | : James Manor |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Nearly all countries worldwide are now experimenting with decentralization. Their motivation are diverse. Many countries are decentralizing because they believe this can help stimulate economic growth or reduce rural poverty, goals central government interventions have failed to achieve. Some countries see it as a way to strengthen civil society and deepen democracy. Some perceive it as a way to off-load expensive responsibilities onto lower level governments. Thus, decentralization is seen as a solution to many different kinds of problems. This report examines the origins and implications decentralization from a political economy perspective, with a focus on its promise and limitations. It explores why countries have often chosen not to decentralize, even when evidence suggests that doing so would be in the interests of the government. It seeks to explain why since the early 1980s many countries have undertaken some form of decentralization. This report also evaluates the evidence to understand where decentralization has considerable promise and where it does not. It identifies conditions needed for decentralization to succeed. It identifies the ways in which decentralization can promote rural development. And it names the goals which decentralization will probably not help achieve.
Author | : Tove H. Malloy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2020-10-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000205681 |
This volume describes and analyzes alternative and emerging models of non-territorial autonomy (NTA), particularly in relation to decentralization. The authors push the NTA debate in new directions by offering a re-conceptualization based on ethno-cultural bottom-up decentralized action that redefines autonomy into its true sense of autonomous action. Through description, critical analysis, and evaluation of several case studies, this book assesses the potential for new paradigms within decentralized systems. The authors explore two approaches to political decentralization which add to the theoretical debate on NTA – network governance, which focuses on new dynamics in policy processes, and normative pluralism, which focuses on accommodating the distinctness of the groups through the subsidiarity principle with regard to their own affairs. The book explores the potential ramifications of ethno-cultural NTA institutions acting within the wider framework of state institutions and assesses the functions of these institutions as another dimension of decentralization and thus another ‘layer’ of democracy. With contemporary examples from Europe, the Middle East, Asia and South Africa, as well as theoretical aspects of the conceptualization of autonomy, this book offers a truly global perspective. It will be of great interest to policy-makers in countries experiencing adverse developments due to the pressure on public management, as well as advanced students and scholars questioning the ability of the Westphalian system to address cultural diversity.
Author | : Roane Carey |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2001-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781859843772 |
The second Intifada arose in September 2000. The course of the uprising, its consequences for the Palestinian people and the Israeli state, and its impact on the future of peace in the Middle East are traced here. 30 photos.
Author | : Nic Cheeseman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2018-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107148243 |
Offers new research on the vital importance of institutions, such as presidential term-limits in the African democratisation processes.
Author | : G. Bacik |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2007-12-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 023061034X |
This book provides readers with a fresh analysis of the Arab state by using a new theoretical framework: hybrid sovereignty. The author examines various areas to make his argument: citizenship, the issue of minorities, electoral engineering, the failure of central rule, tribalism, and the lack of impersonal bureaucratic mechanism.