dc.contributor.author | Rezk, Magdy | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Egypt | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-19T15:48:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-05-19T15:48:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-05-19 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/11620 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article examines the political economy drivers of the uprisings in Egypt in 2011 and 2013. It shows that there was a continuity in neoliberal economic policy from the rule of Hosni Mubarak through to that of Mohamed Morsi, accompanied by an increase in poverty and unemployment.
However, it was Egyptian citizens’ perception of the political dynamics behind the economic situation that drove them to revolt. In 2011, a sense of intolerable levels of corruption and the prospect of their continuation under Mubarak’s son, Gamal, made people responsive to calls for revolution; in 2013, it was the scale of their disappointment at the unmet promises for economic betterment. In both cases, economic conditions were crucial, but political grievances and mobilisation ultimately determined and shaped the revolts. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Bulletin;47.3 | |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons attribution 4.0 International licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdf | en |
dc.subject | Politics and Power | en |
dc.title | The Political Economy of Violence in Egypt | en |
dc.type | Series paper (IDS) | en |
dc.identifier.team | Power and Popular Politics | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.190881968-2016.147 | |