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Economic and Political change in Tunisia

From Bourguiba to Ben Ali

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  • © 1999

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  1. Emma C. Murphy

    1. University of Durham, UK

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This book examines the processes of economic and political reform in Tunisia, placing the current policies of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali within their historical context. The book develops a theoretical understanding of the relationship between economic liberalisation and political change in the Arab world, developing the concept of the disarticulation of the corporatist state and concluding that, despite efforts at democratization, an authoritarian political system is a more likely successor in the era of economic transformation.

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Emma C. Murphy
    Pages 1-11

  3. Economic Liberalization and the State in the Developing World: From Corporatism to Authoritarianism

    • Emma C. Murphy
    Pages 12-41

  4. The Rise and Fall of the Corporatist State in Tunisia, 1956–1986

    • Emma C. Murphy
    Pages 42-79

  5. The Roots of Crisis: Economic Policy under Bourguiba, 1956–1987

    • Emma C. Murphy
    Pages 80-102

  6. Macroeconomic Stabilization and Early Economic Reform: The Seventh Development Plan, 1987–1991

    • Emma C. Murphy
    Pages 103-131

  7. The Consolidation of Structural Adjustment: The Eighth Development Plan, 1992–1996

    • Emma C. Murphy
    Pages 132-163

  8. The Politics of Reconciliation and Reform, 1987–1990

    • Emma C. Murphy
    Pages 164-192

  9. The Reassertion of the State, 1990–1997

    • Emma C. Murphy
    Pages 193-220

  10. The Disarticulation of Multi-Party Corporatism: State and Society under Ben Ali

    • Emma C. Murphy
    Pages 221-244

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 245-285
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Emma Murphy's book is a particularly welcome addition to the small group of up-to-date studies of Tunisia. It provides an accessible introduction to Tunisia's modern poltical economy, focusing on the relationship between economic restructuring and political change since independence. Journal of North African Studies

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  • University of Durham, UK

    Emma C. Murphy

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EMMA MURPHY is Lecturer in Middle Eastern Politics at the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham. She gained her PhD from the University of Exeter in 1991 with a thesis on the political economy of Israeli - Palestinian relations and has also worked as a research fellow at Exeter's Research Unit for the Study of Economic Liberalisation (RUSEL). Her publication include Economic and Political Liberalization in the Middle East (edited with T.N. Blah).

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