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The Elites of the Maghreb: A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

I. William Zartman
I. William Zartman
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New York University
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A survey of the contributions of political science to the understanding of the Middle East and of Middle East studies to the development of political science shows that one of the most fruitful areas of cross-fertilization is in elite studies.1 It might be interesting to speculate on the reasons behind this: Are politics and society in the Mideast especially elitist, or is it simply an accident of research that one scholar who stumbled on a mine of elite data inspired his students to pursue similar types of analysis?2 Whatever the reason may be, another characteristic of Mideast elite studies that stands out is their single- polity focus. If some of the elite studies of the Muslim East have developed a diachronic dimension, none has undertaken multinational comparison.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , October 1975 , pp. 495 - 504
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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