Authors:

  • Ishac Diwan

Excerpt

The Roll-Back of the State and the Rise of Crony Capitalism. Ishac Diwan, 2016, Book Chapter. "A fiscal sociology of the state offers a useful lens for tracing the evolution of social contracts and the underlying political settlements that sustain them (Campbell 1993; Goldscheid 1958). In the Middle East, fiscal policy has gone through dramatic changes over the past ..." Link