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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Main Author: Al-Farsi, Sulaiman H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2013.
Series:Library of modern Middle East studies ; v. 126.
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Online Access:CONNECT