Patronage politics in Egypt : the National Democratic Party and Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo

Patronage politics in Egypt : the National Democratic Party and Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo / Mohamed Fahmy Menza.

Between the military takeover of 1952 and the collapse of the Mubarak regime in 2011, the political system of Egypt depended upon a variety of mechanisms and structures to establish and consolidate its powerbase. Among those, an intricate web of what could be described as 'patronage politics�...

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Main Author: Fahmy Menza, Mohamed
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.
Series:Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics.
Subjects:
Ḥizb al-Waṭanī al-Dīmuqrāṭī (Egypt)
Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt)
1981-2011
Patronage, Political > Egypt.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Parties.
Patronage, Political
Politics and government
Egypt > Politics and government > 1981-2011.
Egypt
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Patronage Politics in Egypt; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction, theoretical framework and methodology/approaches; Aims and objectives; Research questions; Literature review; Approaches/theoretical framework; Methodology; 2 Who are the lesser notables? Historical background and modes of production and circulation, affiliations, and political roles; The Muslim city; The guilds; The notables: the ulama and the commercial bourgeoisie
  • patrons and clients; The Ottomans: modernization
  • Egypt under Muhammad Ali (1805-1848) and the change in modes of production: exit the classical notables ... enter the lesser notables?The futuwwa: the advent of the lesser notables; The twentieth-century futuwwa; The 1952 revolution: contextualizing the re-emergence of the lesser notables; The lesser notables in the contemporary period; A political contest over the co-optation of lesser notables?; Conclusions; 3 Misr al-Qadima: the popular quarter and the polity of the lesser notable; Introduction; Old Cairo: the habitat of ibn al-balad; The curse of the dual city
  • Nineteenth-century Cairo: the tale of two citiesModes of production and informal networks in nineteenth-century Cairo; Cairo in the post-war period; Misr al-Qadima today: socioeconomic and political indicators; Conclusions: the polity of lesser notables; 4 The Muslim Brotherhood, al-Jamm'eyya al-Shar'eyya and networks of support in Misr al-Qadima: the role of the lesser notables; Overview of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo's popular polities; JS: background and history; Political Islam in Misr al-Qadima: the MB and the JS; Conclusions
  • 5 The dissolved National Democratic Party-affiliated lesser notability in Misr al-QadimaIntroduction; The Neo-NDP (2002-2011); The rising importance of the MCs on the NDP's agenda; Relationship between the NDP/state institutions and non-governmental organizations in the popular polity; Misr al-Qadima and the NDP; The MCs: a strong foothold against other political forces?; NDP notables in Misr al-Qadima; Patronage and clientelism in Misr al-Qadima: intermediary sociopolitical roles of lesser notabilities; Conclusions: patronage politics, the dissolved NDP and the co-optation of lesser notables
  • 6 Conclusions: reflections on the sociopolitical agency and the prospective role of lesser notabilities in the Egyptian polityEssentiality of the role of lesser notabilities in popular politics; Lesser notabilities and implications pertaining to state-society relations in the wider context of Cairo's popular quarters; The NDP notabilities vis-à-vis the MB: political patronage and the role of the MCs; NDP and MB notabilities post-January 25; Summation: an attempt to answer the research questions posed in Chapter 1; Political patronage post Mubarak; Postscript; Appendix: Outline of interviews

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