The Role of Sectarianism in the Allocation of Public Expenditure in Postwar Lebanon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8969844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nisreen Salti (0000-0002-4585-6430, corresponding author), Jad Chaaban (0000-0003-2582-6290) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 637-655 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743810000851 |
| OpenAlex | W2314083942 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 8 |
The purpose of this article is twofold. First, we aim to evaluate the records of executive branches of the Lebanese government that are involved in public social spending in terms of their ability to respond to need. Second, we attempt to uncover the criteria underlying the distribution of public social spending. The allocation of funds across sectors and administrative districts is evaluated according to a vector of the socioeconomic characteristics of each locality thought to be of relevance. We find that the association between need and spending is, at best, very loose. When we use the geographical distribution of spending and voting data from each locality to estimate each religious sect's share of public spending, we find a striking conformity between the sectarian composition of the population and each sect's estimated share of national public spending. The logic of the disbursement of public funds and the mechanism underlying the observed one-man one-dollar distribution rule—a rule with primacy over health, education, and infrastructure needs as well as imbalances across regions—is that distribution be balanced across sects
Conformity · Development economics · Distribution (mathematics · Economics · Government (linguistics · Government spending · Liberian dollar · Locality · Political science · Politics · Population · Public economics · Public expenditure · Public finance · Sectarianism · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Demography · Finance · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |