Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

How does the Egyptian state attempt to use economic and judicial…

- - - - Scott, 2012
  - - - Brown, 2013
  - - - How did the state attempt to do this?
        
        Constitutional amendments of 2005
        
        ARTICLE?
      - shift from Nasser-era socialism to capitalism
    - - Constitutionalism; building a rule of law
      - How did the state attempt to do this?
        
        granting SCC autonomy and judicial review
        
        SPECIFIC TOOLS USED BY STATE THAT INTERSECT ECONOMIC/LEGAL BOUNDARIES
        
        judicial autonomy
        
        constitutional amendment
- - - - Abu Odeh, 2011
      - Jenkins, 2011
      - RENTIER STATE: a government that is able to use its legitimate monopoly over territory to extract significant rents from international transactions and thereby become the dominant actor in the political economy (Jenkins, 2011)
      - Rent sources: Suez, oil and natural gas, geopolitical locations (USAID)
      - "Bounty Capitalism" (Abu Odeh, 2011)
        
        "Rentierism acts as a socialist state distributionally by virtue of the size of its revenue while still producing capitalist effects (wealth disparity) with the important added complexity that it does so without the mediation of local labor" (Abu Odeh 2011)
  - - - Abu Odeh, 2011
      - structuring a subsidy and tariff system aimed at protecting local infant industries from the competition of industrial imports
        
        taxes both national consumers and farmers to subsidize the emergent industrial elite and industrial working class
        
        success depends on treating ISI as initial stage of production to be followed by one of competition so previously subsidized industrial goods are no longer protected but are forced to compete with other industrial goods in the international market
      - Aftermath
        
        "severe debt crisis that hurled Egypt into the brutal embrace of the World Bank and IMF" (Abu Odeh, 2009)
      - Abu Odeh, 2009
      - WASHINGTON CONSENSUS: set of 10 economic policy prescriptions considered to constitute the "standard" reform package promoted for crisis-wracked developing countries by IMF and Word Bank
    - - private property
      - capital flight
        
        Moustafa, 2007/2008
      - de-nationalization
    - - Abu Odeh, 2011
- - - - dissolution of parliament
      - Brown, 2013
      - Abu Odeh, 2013
      - 1971 constitution suspended by SCAF, Constitutional Reform Committee created to draft constitutional amendments to allow for transition to new government
- - - - Articles 194-205: creation of the Shoura Council with president electing 1/3 of members and ability to dissolve under emergency law caveat
      - Articles 77, 190: term limits of president extended to 6 years (Sadat never actually benefited)
      - Article 2: shari'a the principle source of legislation but no designation on who has authority to interpret Islamic law
  - - - Maboudi, 2016