TY - JOUR
T1 - A Social Contract Moment
T2 - Egypt’s National Action Charter and Saudi Arabia’s Ten-Point Program Compared
AU - Shechter, Relli
N1 - Funding Information: Relli Shechter is chair of the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His most recent book is The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class: Socio-Economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat (Cambridge, 2018). Dr. Shechter’s next book, The Egyptian Social Contract: A History of State–Middle Class Relations, is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press. This research was supported by the Israel Science Foundation grant No. 404/17. Dr. Shechter would like to thank the two reviewers and the Middle East Journal editorial team for their very useful comments. Publisher Copyright: © Middle East Institute.
PY - 2022/12/1
Y1 - 2022/12/1
N2 - Egypt’s National Action Charter and Saudi Arabia’s Ten-Point Program were is-sued in 1962 amid a context of domestic and regional insecurity for both regimes. This article reviews the context that shaped each regime’s pledges for both political and (rather similar) socioeconomic reforms, challenging the common analy-sis of the so-called authoritarian bargain as a simplistic exchange of economic benefits for the political rights of citizens. Both documents also simultaneously embedded their proposed reforms in their country’s respective legacies, ushering in a new era of state-led development.
AB - Egypt’s National Action Charter and Saudi Arabia’s Ten-Point Program were is-sued in 1962 amid a context of domestic and regional insecurity for both regimes. This article reviews the context that shaped each regime’s pledges for both political and (rather similar) socioeconomic reforms, challenging the common analy-sis of the so-called authoritarian bargain as a simplistic exchange of economic benefits for the political rights of citizens. Both documents also simultaneously embedded their proposed reforms in their country’s respective legacies, ushering in a new era of state-led development.
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U2 - 10.3751/75.4.14
DO - 10.3751/75.4.14
M3 - Article
SN - 0026-3141
VL - 75
SP - 574
EP - 590
JO - The Middle East Journal
JF - The Middle East Journal
IS - 4
ER -
