{"id":7063,"date":"2012-03-13T13:49:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T20:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7063"},"modified":"2012-03-13T17:40:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T00:40:50","slug":"in-gulf-democracy-puts-those-who-hold-the-material-weath-at-risk-of-funding-welfarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7063","title":{"rendered":"In gulf democracy puts those who hold the material wealth at risk of “funding welfare-ism”"},"content":{"rendered":"

editor: the neocolonial wealth held in the gulf has been systematically robbed from it inhabitants for centuries. Its curious how the wealthy seem to forget the origin of their wealth but embrace brutality when it seems necessary to retain it. Phlipn. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n


\n\u201cProgress vs democracy\u201d in the Gulf<\/strong>
\n13 March, 2012 – POMED<\/p>\n

In a comment, Mishaal Al Gergawi proposed comparing democracy and development focusing on Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). Al Gergawi said that Kuwait is perceived as an \u201caspirational beacon of political participation in the Gulf,\u201d and the U.A.E. as a \u201csuccessful post-oil development attempt.\u201d Considering any comparison between democracy and development, the author reports that \u201cKhaliji (states from the Gulf) capitalists will note that democracy has an adverse effect on development,\u201d and Kuwait would be cited as \u201ca state gone wrong via democracy.\u201d However, Al Gergawi noticed that Dubai and Kuwait achieved soft power strength; following a different path, Kuwait \u201cgave Khalijis contemporary cultural depth and a disposition towards self-criticism\u201d while \u201cDubai raised the bar of the Khalijis\u2019 own expectations of their cities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Al Gergawi called the Kuwaiti ruling system an \u201chybrid democracy,\u201d and said \u201cit\u2019s in principle a parliamentary system, elections are limited to 50 of 65 seats; the Emir of Kuwait appoints the remaining 15. Those form 15 of the 16-member cabinet, the 16th is ceremonially chosen from the parliament\u2019s 50 elected members.\u201d This system has driven to ensure \u201ca continuous state of crises,\u201d as the parliament is often in conflict with the cabinet.<\/p>\n

The author also noticed that \u201cthe abundance of oil in Kuwait and its near lack in Dubai required the latter to pursue a policy of revenue diversification while the former became a welfarist rentier state.\u201d The different economic situation impacts the development of both cities. Dubai met an economic growth \u201cdriven by internal realities such as limited natural resources and a heritage of trade that precedes its discovery of oil.\u201d On the other hand Kuwait\u2019s deceleration was driven by a crisis-prone hybrid political system that was meant to balance the interests of the ruling family and people but has really antagonized both,\u201d moreover Al Gergawi believed that the ruling family bought the Kuwaities\u2019 apathy by expanding the state reaching an inefficient size.<\/p>\n

The author concluded that \u201cdemocracy shouldn\u2019t be given more credit than its due or held accountable for what it does not have a direct effect on,\u201d and added \u201cdevelopment is the product of thorough planning and dynamic execution. If anything, it is more susceptible to oil wealth and welfarism than anything else \u2026 even if that was a well-functioning democracy.\u201d …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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editor: the neocolonial wealth held in the gulf has been systematically robbed from it inhabitants for centuries. Its curious how the wealthy seem to forget the origin of their wealth but embrace brutality when it seems necessary to retain it. Phlipn. \u201cProgress vs democracy\u201d in the Gulf 13 March, 2012 – POMED In a comment, more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[708],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7071,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions\/7071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}