Institutions and the Politics of Survival in Jordan: Domestic Responses to External Challenges, 1988-2001Weaving together accounts of historical developments, cultural elements, economic factors, and regional and international dynamics, Russell E. Lucas explores how the monarchy in Jordan survived economic crisis and regional political instability during the 1990s. Lucas analyzes the factors behind the successful liberalization and deliberalization of laws regulating political parties, the parliament, and the press that helped preserve the monarchy. These institutional survival strategies co-opted the opposition, kept it divided, and reinforced the unity of the regime s coalition of supporters. The author also compares survival strategies in Jordan with those of Morocco, Kuwait, Iran, and Egypt to explain the surprising durability of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East. |
Contents
INSTITUTIONS AND THE POLITICS OF SURVIVAL | 1 |
REGIMELED STATE BUILDING IN JORDAN 19211988 | 13 |
ECONOMIC CRISIS AND POLITICAL LIBERALIZATION | 25 |
INSTITUTIONALIZING POLITICAL LIBERALIZATION | 51 |
MANAGING PEACE AND ITS DISCONTENTS | 71 |
NORMALIZATION AND STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT | 87 |
PRESS RESTRICTIONS AND THE 1997 ELECTIONS | 99 |
A NEW KING AND A NEW INTIFADA | 127 |
INSTITUTIONS AND THE POLITICS OF SURVIVAL AN APPRAISAL | 137 |
NOTES | 157 |
| 173 | |
| 181 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
1989 elections 1997 amendments 1997 elections Amman Arab nationalist Arab World Article August boycott cabinet candidates Committee for Drafting constitution courts debate decree democracy Democratic domestic draft law Drafting the National Egypt electoral law electoral system Farhan government's Hashemite House of Deputies interview by author Islamic Islamic Action Front Islamists Israel Israeli Jordanian political Jordanian regime journalists Kamhawi King Abdullah King Hussein Kuwait Law Committee leftists and Arab legislation Mdanat ment Middle East peace monarchy Moreover Morocco Mulhaq Muslim Brotherhood National Charter newspapers opposition groups opposition's organization Palestinian Parliament Parties Law peace treaty political liberalization political parties Political Parties Law Press and Publications press law Prime Minister progovernment provisional law Publications Law amendments Qattan regime coalition regime liberals regime survival strategies regime's restrictions Royal Committee rules seats session SNTV SNTV system tion Transjordan unity University of Jordan University Press venue vote voters West Bank