A Theory of 'Late Rentierism' in the Arab States of the Gulf
A Theory of 'Late Rentierism' in the Arab States of the Gulf
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海湾阿拉伯国家的“晚期食利主义”理论
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10.2139/ssrn.2825905
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2011
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M. Gray
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M. Gray
寻租者国家理论（Rentier State Theory）试图解释外部支付（或租金）对国家-社会关系和治理的影响，已经被广泛使用了二十多年，并且仍然经常被海湾地区或世界其他地区的学者引用。它的原则被广泛接受--如果不是一致接受的话--并在更广泛的层面上保持着强大的有效性。然而，在过去20年左右的时间里，迪拜、巴林以及最近的卡塔尔和阿布扎比对全球化、新技术、更自由的贸易和投资、社会变革和发展需求的反应，都不足以解释海湾地区政治经济的巨大变化。这里有人认为，一个新的阶段，即“晚期食利主义”，应该适用于富裕的阿拉伯海湾国家。晚食利主义的理由是强调其他食利者方法的缺点或过于简单化。本研究还描述和解释晚期食利主义通过讨论和阐明其主要特征和特点，包括这些如何不同，或没有，从其他食利者的解释。
Rentier state theory (RST), which seeks to explain the impacts of external payments - or rents - on state-society relations and governance, has been in wide usage for over two decades, and is still routinely cited by scholars writing on the Gulf or other parts of the world. Its tenets are widely - if by no means unanimously - accepted, and retain a strong validity at the broader level. However, RST has not adapted enough to explain the dramatic changes in the political economies of the Gulf in the past two decades or so, including the responses of Dubai, Bahrain, and more recently Qatar and Abu Dhabi, to globalization, new technologies, freer trade and investments, social changes, and development imperatives. It is argued here that a new phase of RST — “late rentierism” — should be applied to the wealthy Arab Gulf states. The case for late rentierism is made with an emphasis on the shortcomings or oversimplifications of other rentier approaches. This study also describes and explains late rentierism through a discussion and elucidation of its major features and characteristics, including how these vary, or not, from those of other rentier explanations.