Mubarak's Egypt: Fragmentation of the Political Order

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- 1 EGYPT CONFRONTS THE NEW ORTHODOXY OF DEVELOPMENT -- Egypt's Reluctance to Adopt the New Orthodoxy -- Alternative Scenarios -- Organization of Following Chapters -- Notes -- 2 MUBARAK, THE POLITICAL ELITE, AND THE CHANGING POLITICAL ECONOMY -- Mubarak's Political Style -- Mubarak and the Political Elite -- The Political Elite and the Changing Political Economy -- Mubarak: The Enigma Revealed? -- Notes -- 3 THE BOURGEOISIE AND THE STATE -- Islamic Investment Companies Versus the State -- Strategies to Forestall Government Control -- The First Moment of Truth -- The Government Tries Again -- Rent" Collectors and Fragmented Government -- Segments of the Bourgeoisie -- Entrepreneurial Capitalists and the Strategy of Avoidance -- Parasitic Bourgeoisie and the Strategy of Subversion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 THE MILITARY -- The Legacy of Civil-Military Relations -- Mubarak and Abu Ghazala -- Military Self-Sufficiency and the Expansion of Patronage -- Horizontal Military Expansion -- Mubarak, Abu Ghazala, and the Opposition -- The Future of Civil-Military Relations -- Notes -- 5 THE SYSTEM OF POLITICAL CONTROL -- The Carrot -- Ministry of Interior -- The National Democratic Party -- Ministry of Social Affairs -- Exclusionary Corporatism? -- Notes -- 6 SECULAR AND ISLAMICIST OPPOSITION -- The Secular Opposition -- The Limits to Democracy -- Control of Elections -- Parliament -- The Media -- Sources of Opposition Parties' Weakness -- Party Infighting: The Case of the Wafd -- Class Bases of Opposition Parties -- Lack of Coordination Between Opposition Parties -- The Political Vacuum: Explosive or Just Empty? -- The Islamicist Opposition -- The Reemergence of Islamic Activism in Mubarak's Egypt -- Are Islamicists Practicing Taqiya?.