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This paper will analyze the unique way of modernization in Qatar and Qataris. Rather than the adopting the typical, normally associated with rapid modernization by Western theorists, Qataris have instead maintained tradition or constructed neo traditional notions of identity. This paper analyzes the issue in the sense negative relations between economic development and modernization. General tendency about the relations between economic development and Modernity is positive, but in contrary, Qatar is an exceptional example. Briefly, some of the scholars, like Lipset, claimed that the relationship between economic development and democratization is positive. He underlines the idea of the more well to do a nation, the greater the chances that it will sustain democracy. On the other hand, some scholars like Barrington Moore and Przeworski claims that the relationship between economic development and democratization is negative. In the light of this information, Qatar will be examined in economically and democratically in the sense of modernization with its unique way. This research aims to show that the very exceptional country in the modernization theory: Qatar.
2015 •
MESA'98, Middle East Studies Association
State and Civil Society in Bahrain1998 •
By the early seventies all states comprising the Gulf Co-operation Council were declared independent. Gulf emirates were to acquire the title of “state” in their bid to modernise their political structure. Amongst the GCC countries, the State of Bahrain provides one of most contrasting cases, where the process of state formation interacted with critical issues pertaining to tribal political control, civil society and popular participation. Administrative reforms were introduced in Bahrain in the 1920s at the peak of British involvement in internal politics. These reforms were subordinated to tribal sovereignty only to create a conflicting political environment.
In Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson argue that to be prosperous a country must have inclusive economic institutions that create broad based economic opportunities and incentives. Underpinning such economic institutions there must be inclusive political institutions where political power is broadly spread in society, they argue.
The present study examines the Arab nation that has remained least affected by the regional upheaval that has gripped much of the Middle East and North Africa since the beginning of 2011: the Gulf state of Qatar. Using previously unavailable data from the inaugural Qatar World Values Survey administered in December 2010, we explore the political orientations of ordinary Qatari citizens. Specifically, we extend several recent empirical analyses that suggest a conditional relationship between civic participation and democratic political orientations in Arab and other non-Western societies. As in other non-democratic contexts, we find, in Qatar citizen involvement in societal organizations is not associated with higher appreciation for democracy, nor again with those values and behaviors thought to be essential to it. Rather, associational life in Qatar is simply an extension of traditional society and the prevailing regime, with those most involved being those who derive the most benefit and who would thus stand to lose most from any revision of the political status quo.
2017 •
This publication was made possible by a grant from the Qatar National Research Fund (NPRP) NPRP 09-484-5-074. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the author and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Qatar National Research Fund.
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