Policy-Making in a Transformative State

This book explores, in a series of detailedcase studies, how public policy is actually made in Qatar. While Qatar is aGulf monarchy, its governance is complex. Other analysts have tried to come togrips with this complexity using qualified descriptions of the system such as ''late rentier,'' ''pluralized autocracy,'' ''tribal democracy,'' or ''softauthoritarian.'' The authors of the volume use the ...