Sozialpolitik Im Dienste des Machterhalts : Soziale Sicherung und Staat im Arabischen Vorderen Orient (Social Policies as a Legitimation Strategy: Social Protection and the State in the Arab World)

Due to the modernisation of societies, traditional social security systems are getting weaker and less reliable. The state must therefore step in and provide social protection to its citizens. Whether they effectively do or not depends on their financial and technical capacities adn on the willingness of governments. Both conditions are given to differing degrees in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. It makes sense in this regard to differentiate between oil-rich and oil-poor countries on the one hand and between monarchies and republics on the other hand. Oil-rich republics tend to engage most for the social protection of households, while oil-poor monarchies care less