Civil Society and the State in Syria: The Outsourcing of Social Responsibility
Laura Ruiz de Elvira and Tina Zintl | | ISBN: 978-0-9559687-9-2 $14.95 |
2012/71 pages
St Andrews Papers on Contemporary Syria Distributed for the University of St Andrews Centre for Syrian Studies |
DESCRIPTION
In recent years Syria has transferred many responsibilities for welfare functions to private charities and NGOs, while at the same time attempting to control those organizations. In this context, the authors of Civil Society and the State in Syria focus both on Christian charities and on the regime-sponsored NGOs that are attracting secular, urban Syrians.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Laura Ruiz de Elvira is conducting research at France's School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and the Autonomous University of Madrid, and Tina Zintl is conducting research at the University of St Andrews.
CONTENTS
- Foreword: Welfare Privatization as Authoritarian Upgrading—Raymond Hinnebusch.
- State-Charity Relations in Syria: Between Reinforcement, Control, and Coercion—L. Ruiz de Elvira.
- Modernization Theory II: Western-Educated Syrians and the Authoritarian Upgrading of Civil Society—T. Zintl.
