Decentralization is one of many schemes or projects that have been proposed to solve the Lebanese crisis. However, research into the subject of decentralization derives its importance from the fact that defacto ...
This study attributes contemporary Lebanese Shi'ite politicization to factors other than the Shi'ite religio-political heritage, which conventional Western wisdom has held solely accountable for Shi'ite radicalism. Although ...
This project is an attempt at exploring the origins of the Lebanese Independence Intifada of 2005. By reviewing the decade before it, it becomes clear that the 2005 moment was not merely a momentous reaction to the brutal ...
The behavior of Lebanese bureaucrats has always been a subject for controversial debate. Some scholars and observers condemn the bureaucrats1«irrational» and «illegal» behavior, while others try to explain such behavior ...
Lebanon suffers from many characteristics of a post-conflict state, such as a faltering economy, ineffective and inefficient government, poor infrastructure especially in sectors of energy and electricity, and internal or ...
The presence of the Kurds in Lebanon goes back to the second quarter of this century when they sought refuge in Lebanon fleeing violence and poverty of Kurdistan. However, what was thought to be a temporary stay in Lebanon ...
Under Ottoman rule and later the French Mandate, electoral districts were divided based on the confession of constituents. As Lebanon gained independence, the National Pact and Taiif Accord institutionalized the confessional ...
In this thesis, I use an oral history theoretical and methodological approach to investigate the protests and demonstrations that took place in Lebanon following the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in ...
Forty years after it was cheated, the National Pact is said to have become obsolete. Almost every single Lebanese leader has denounced it as being imperfect, insufficient or even unjust, and has called for its revision. ...
This thesis focuses on political integration of Lebanese Druze in political parties in Lebanon. The objective of the study is to investigate the duality of belonging both to a sect and to a political party among Druze ...
This paper addresses neutrality coupled with decentralization as a strategy to counter instability and intervention for the case of Switzerland and its applicability to Lebanon. Switzerland is ethnically, religiously and ...
The fifteen-year Lebanese civil war left behind devastated buildings and a traumatized society. In the years following the war, much attention was paid to economic recovery and infrastructure reconstruction, but unfortunately, ...
Lebanon’s Minister of the Interior, Marwan Charbel has proposed a number of electoral reforms, one of which is out-of-country voting rights for expatriates which, at present, looks to be enacted by parliamentary elections ...
Patronage and clientalism are a system of service provision and support networks based on personality or political party which frequently supplant the national state. In Lebanon, patronage networks are especially strong ...
This thesis explores the debate in Lebanon on political gender quotas through the use of semi-structured interviews with some of the country’s civil society and political elite. It first analyzes the academic literature ...
The prospective discovery of offshore gas deposits will have an impact on Lebanon’s energy situation, as it creates possibilities for policy change in the country’s electricity, industry and transportation sectors. To ...
After decades of “decentralization debates,” international organizations and social scientists are rethinking the scale at which government should occur. True, administrative decentralization has brought about positive ...
This study is a theoretical and empirical analysis of the Lebanese political system with reference to the consociational model. Traditional typologies - such as the classification of systems as parliamentary or presidential, ...
This thesis seeks to bridge a gap between Middle East studies of public administration and the discipline of Public Administration through an exploration of how clans influence administrative processes in the Middle East. ...
This thesis explored the relation between representation and stability, taking Lebanon and consociational system as a case study, comparing the 1957 and the 1960 elections. The first half of this thesis explored the ...