@article{dc6ea596024a46b2b78fdbbb7668db6b,
title = "A Social Contract Moment: Egypt{\textquoteright}s National Action Charter and Saudi Arabia{\textquoteright}s Ten-Point Program Compared",
abstract = "Egypt{\textquoteright}s National Action Charter and Saudi Arabia{\textquoteright}s Ten-Point Program were is-sued in 1962 amid a context of domestic and regional insecurity for both regimes. This article reviews the context that shaped each regime{\textquoteright}s pledges for both political and (rather similar) socioeconomic reforms, challenging the common analy-sis of the so-called authoritarian bargain as a simplistic exchange of economic benefits for the political rights of citizens. Both documents also simultaneously embedded their proposed reforms in their country{\textquoteright}s respective legacies, ushering in a new era of state-led development.",
author = "Relli Shechter",
note = "Funding Information: Relli Shechter is chair of the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His most recent book is The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class: Socio-Economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat (Cambridge, 2018). Dr. Shechter{\textquoteright}s next book, The Egyptian Social Contract: A History of State–Middle Class Relations, is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press. This research was supported by the Israel Science Foundation grant No. 404/17. Dr. Shechter would like to thank the two reviewers and the Middle East Journal editorial team for their very useful comments. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Middle East Institute.",
year = "2022",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.3751/75.4.14",
language = "English",
volume = "75",
pages = "574--590",
journal = "The Middle East Journal",
issn = "0026-3141",
publisher = "Middle East Institute",
number = "4",
}
