Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats : Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Acronyms -- Dramatis Personae -- Introduction -- 1. Unpacking the Saudi State: Oil Fiefdoms and Their Clients -- Part I: Oil and History -- 2. Oil Fiefdoms in Flux: The New Saudi State in the 1950s -- 3. The Emerging Bureaucratic Order under Faisal -- 4. The 1970s Boom: Bloating the State and Clientelizing Society -- Part II: Policy-Making in Segmented Clientelism -- 5. The Foreign Investment Act: Lost between Fiefdoms -- 6. Eluding the "Saudization" of Labor Markets -- 7. The Fragmented Domestic Negotiations over WTO Adaptation -- 8. Comparing the Case Studies, Comparing Saudi Arabia -- References -- Index.