[PDF] Deliberalization In Jordan eBook

Author : Katherine Blue Carroll
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780739105054

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Katherine Blue Carroll explores the dynamic link between Jordan's business community and the state between 1983 and 2000.

Author : Matthias Busse
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 2011
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The paper assesses the impact of Jordan's substantial trade liberalisation over the last two decades. Using a gravity model, a large country sample and a long time-series, we estimate the effects of various Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and the WTO accession on both Jordan's exports and imports. Overall, we find that the impact has been rather small, as no statistically significant impact on exports and imports can be found due to multilateral or preferential trade liberalisation. However, there are three exceptions: The FTA with the United States of America has boosted Jordan's exports, whereas both the FTA with other Arab countries (GAFTA) and the WTO accession have led to an increase in imports.

Author : Janine A. Clark
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231545010

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In recent years, authoritarian states in the Middle East and North Africa have faced increasing international pressure to decentralize political power. Decentralization is presented as a panacea that will foster good governance and civil society, helping citizens procure basic services and fight corruption. Two of these states, Jordan and Morocco, are monarchies with elected parliaments and recent experiences of liberalization. Morocco began devolving certain responsibilities to municipal councils decades ago, while Jordan has consistently followed a path of greater centralization. Their experiences test such assumptions about the benefits of localism. Janine A. Clark examines why Morocco decentralized while Jordan did not and evaluates the impact of their divergent paths, ultimately explaining how authoritarian regimes can use decentralization reforms to consolidate power. Local Politics in Jordan and Morocco argues that decentralization is a tactic authoritarian regimes employ based on their coalition strategies to expand their base of support and strengthen patron-client ties. Clark analyzes the opportunities that decentralization presents to local actors to pursue their interests and lays out how municipal-level figures find ways to use reforms to their advantage. In Morocco, decentralization has resulted not in greater political inclusivity or improved services, but rather in the entrenchment of pro-regime elites in power. The main Islamist political party has also taken advantage of these reforms. In Jordan, decentralization would undermine the networks that benefit elites and their supporters. Based on extensive fieldwork, Local Politics in Jordan and Morocco is an important contribution to Middle East studies and political science that challenges our understanding of authoritarian regimes’ survival strategies and resilience.

Author : Ida Bastiaens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 23,10 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108470483

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Explains the political factors behind the failure of many developing country democracies to benefit from globalization.

Author : Myriam Ababsa
Publisher : Presses de l’Ifpo
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 25,5 MB
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 235159438X

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This atlas aims to provide the reader with key pointers for a spatial analysis of the social, economic and political dynamics at work in Jordan, an exemplary country of the Middle East complexities. Being a product of seven years of scientific cooperation between Ifpo, the Royal Jordanian Geographic Center and the University of Jordan, it includes the contributions of 48 European, Jordanian and International researchers. A long historical part followed by sections on demography, economy, social disparities, urban challenges and major town and country planning, sheds light on the formation of Jordanian territories over time. Jordan has always been looked on as an exception in the Middle East due to the political stability that has prevailed since the country’s Independence in 1946, despite the challenge of integrating several waves of Palestinian, Iraqi and - more recently - Syrian refugees. Thanks to this stability and the peace accord signed with Israel in 1994, Jordan is one of the first countries in the world for development aid per capita.

Author : Russell E. Lucas
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791464465

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Explains how the Jordanian monarchy has survived economic crisis and regional political instability.

Author : Aroub Ziad Al-Majali
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Jordan
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Literature dealing with the role NGOs play in relation to political liberalization contains conflicting views. The positive/liberal approach views NGOs as a positive stepping stone toward liberalization. The critical approach, on the other hand, questions this causal relationship, arguing that the political environments within which NGOs function should be studied to realize the roles of these organizations, which could be either negative or positive to liberalization. In Jordan, since the beginning of the democratization process which started in 1989, NGOs have multiplied in numbers; however, significant political openings have not occurred. This paper, using a critical perspective, will look at the status of NGOs in Jordan to study their role in relation to political liberalization. More specifically, it will assess the role of Royal NGOs, RONGOs, by looking at the three largest in Jordan: the Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development, Nour Al-Hussein Foundation and the Jordan River Foundation. It will be demonstrated that NGOs' influence on the political sphere is generally weak due to the nature of limited liberalization that has taken place in Jordan, legal obstacles, internal weaknesses of NGOs and state corporatism and cooptation of the NGO sector. Moreover, a closer study of RONGOs using the three cases will show that they in fact aid, facilitate and legitimize state corporatism, cooptation and penetration of civil society. This comes as a result of RONGO entanglement with the government and the regime, their privileged working environment, as well as their activities and approaches.