Low-Key Politics: Local-Level Leadership and Change in the Middle East

by Richard T. Antoun

Overview

Study of a Jordanian village, focusing on the choice of available political strategies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873953733
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	06/30/1979
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	285
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Tables, Charts, Maps

Transliteration of Arabic Letters and Symbols

Preface

Chapter One Introduction to the Study and Its Conceptual Framework

Chapter Two The Social Structural Background of the Political Process: The Village and Clan as Movement and Machine

Chapter Three The Development of Criteria for Distinguishing Core and Support: Four Points of View

Chapter Four The Mayors: Strategy, Tactics, and Intercalary Leadership

Chapter Five The External Arena: Its Roles and Resources

Chapter Six Subversion, Confrontation, and Encounter: The Case For and Against Cyclical Change

Chapter Seven Individual Differences, Influence, and Leadership

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index