Democracy and youth in the Middle East : Islam, tribalism and the rentier state in Oman /
"The leaders of the oil-rich rentier states of the Middle East, and in particular in the Gulf, have hitherto often predicated their legitimacy on a tacit social contract with their (much poorer) populations. This social contract consists of little or no direct taxation, with some sort of subsid...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris,
2013.
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Series: | Library of modern Middle East studies ;
v. 126. |
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Online Access: | CONNECT |