Citizen Wayn? The Struggle of Parliament in Contemporary Jordan

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ID6160730
AuthorsPaul Maurice Esber (0000-0002-6076-2715, German Orient Foundation, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume13
Issue3
Pages294-313
Publication date2021-06-09
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMiddle East Law and Governance (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1876-3367 • E-ISSN: 1876-3375
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/18763375-13031238
OpenAlexW3182807240
LanguageEN
Citations received3

This article is part of the Special Issue “Parliaments in the Middle East and North Africa: A Struggle for Relevance.” Because the politics of citizenship is felt at all stages of the parliamentary process, the very question of parliamentary relevance itself cannot be answered without reference to the citizenry. That Jordan’s citizenship regime influences and impedes parliamentary politics is explored through two cases. The first being decentralization, understood as a relocating of tasks, decision-making and mandates from a centralized location to different, more localized levels. The second study focuses on the uprisings occurring from May 30, 2018 against the draft domestic tax law introduced to parliament by the government of then-Prime Minister Hani al-Mulki. Both cases are implicated in the Kingdom’s parliamentary politics, and their selection is a conscious move away from election analysis. Taken together they elucidate how citizenship is a key battleground on which any future emancipation/development of parliament will be fought

Citizenship · Emancipation · General election · Government (linguistics · Parliament · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Relevance (law · Sociology · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Public Administration · Turkey's Politics and Society

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