This book provides political and economic perspectives on social policy and its evolution in countries of the Middle East and North Africa. Chapters on Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia analyze its origins in populist or modernizing state activities, its decline in the era of neoliberalism and prospects for its renewal in a democratizing and development context. This book uniquely provides historical and comparative data and a gender analysis of social policy that will be of relevance to specialists in social policy, development and the Middle East.

Autorentext
ASEF BAYAT Director, International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and ISIM Professor, Leiden University, The Netherlands KORKUT BORATAV Director, Turkish Social Science Association, Ankara, Turkey MOHA ENNAJI Professor of Human and Social Sciences, and Director, the doctoral program in Gender Studies, University of Fez, Morocco AZZEDINE LAYACHI Associate Professor of Political Science, St. John's University, USA MAHMOOD MESSKOUB Lecturer in Economics, Leeds University Business School, UK METIN OZUGURLU Lecturer, School of Political Sciences and Vice-Director, European Union Research Centre, Ankara, Turkey M. B. ROMDHAN Lecturer in Economics, University of Tunis, Tunisia

Inhalt
List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements Social Policy in the Middle East: Introduction and Overview; M.Karshenas & V.M.Moghadam Social Policy and Development in Tunisia since Independence: A Political Perspective; M.B.Romdhan Algeria: Crisis, Transition, and Social Policy Outcomes; A.Layachi Social Policy in Morocco: History, Politics, and Social Development; M.Ennaji The Political Economy of Social Policy in Egypt; A.Bayat Social Policies and Distributional Dynamics in Turkey: 1923-2002; K.Boratav & M.Özugurlu Constitutionalism, Modernization, and Islamization: The Political Economy of Social Policy in Iran; M.Messkoub Gender and Social Policy: Family Law and Women's Economic Citizenship in the Middle East; V.M.Moghadam Index