Using case studies covering the MENA region, this book looks at how the relationships within and between clientelist and patronage networks changed before 2011. The book assesses how these changes contributed to the destabilization of the established political and social order, and how they affected less visible political processes.

Introduction - Networks of Dependency, A Research Perspective, Laura Ruiz de Elvira, Christoph H. Schwarz, Irene Weipert-Fenner Part I: Conceptualising Privilege and Dependency in the MENA Region 1. Multi-layered Dependency: Understanding the Transnational Dimension of Favouritism in the Middle East, Sina Birkholz 2. Theorizing Politics, Patronage, and Corruption in the Arab Monarchies of the Gulf, Matthew Gray Part II: Patron-Client Relations in the Neoliberal Era 3. Redistributive Politics, Clientelism and Political Patronage Under the AKP, Esra Çeviker Gürakar and Tuba Bircan 4. Cairo's New Old Faces: Redrawing the Map of Patron-Client Networks after 2011, Mohamed Fahmy Menza 5. Neoliberal Reforms, Protests and Enforced Patron-Client Relations in Tunisia and Egypt, Mohamed Yaghi 6. The Reconfiguration of Clientelism and the Failure of Vote Buying in Lebanon, Tine Gade Part III: The Role of Brokers for Networks of Dependency 7. Centre-Periphery Relations and the Reconfiguration of the State's Patronage Networks in the Rif, Ángela Suárez-Collado 8. Networks of Dependencies and Governmentality in Southern Lebanon: Development and Re-Construction as Tools for Hezbollah's Clientelist Strategies, Diana Zeidan 9. Patronage and Clientelism in Jordan: The Monarchy and the Tribes in the Wake of the "Arab Spring", Luis Melián Rodríguez