Book review: corruption in Tunisia: how the government used economic controls to ensure political dominance

Partridge, Matthew

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Book review: corruption in Tunisia: how the government used economic controls to ensure political dominance

Authors: Matthew Partridge
Publication date: 5 July 2012
Publisher: Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

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Matthew Partridge reviews The Force of Obedience, a book on the corruption and corporatism at work in Tunisia, and how the rhetoric of “modernisation” has in some cases been used to justify policies that have increased the power of the state. The Force of Obedience: The Political Economy of Repression in Tunisia. Béatrice Hibou. Polity. June 2011

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