El Tarouty, Safinaz - 2015 - First edition
study of authoritarianism in Egypt by focusing on the role of businessmen in authoritarian survival. As the regime … citizens, they co-opted businessmen in order to defuse challenges and buttress the regime, constructing a new political economy … of authoritarianism. Extending the existing literature on clientelism, El Tarouty creates a typology of regime-businessmen …