{"product_id":"winning-hearts-and-votes-social-services-and-the-islamist-political-advantage-hardback-9781501730627","title":"Winning Hearts and Votes; Social Services and the Islamist Political Advantage (Hardback) 9781501730627","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWinning Hearts and Votes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSocial Services and the Islamist Political Advantage\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSteven Brooke (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501730627\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 January 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e234 pages, 7 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 11 b\u0026amp;w line drawings, 4 maps, 7 charts - 7 Charts - 4 Maps - 7 Halftones, black and white - 11 Line drawings, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn non-democratic regimes around the world, non-state organizations provide millions of citizens with medical care, schooling, childrearing, and other critical social services.\u003c\/b\u003e Why would any authoritarian countenance this type of activism? Under what conditions does the private provision of social services generate political mobilization? And in those cases, what linkage does the provision of social services forge between the provider and recipient?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWinning Hearts and Votes\u003c\/i\u003e, Steven Brooke argues that authoritarians often seek to manage moments of economic crisis by offloading social welfare responsibilities to non-state providers. But providers who serve poorer citizens, motivated by either charity of clientelism, will be constrained in their ability to mobilize voters because the poor depend on the state for many different goods. Organizations that serve paying customers, in contrast, may produce high quality, consistent, and effective services. This type of provision generates powerful, reputation-based linkages with a middle-class constituency more likely to support the provider on election day.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrooke backs up his novel argument with an in-depth examination of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the archetypal organization that combines social service provision with electoral success. With a fascinating array of historical, qualitative, spatial, and experimental data he traces the Brotherhood's provision of medical services from its origins in the 1970s, through its maturation under the authoritarian regime of Hosni Mubarak, to its apogee during the country's brief democratic interlude, 2011–2013. In addition to generating new insights into authoritarian regimes, party-voter linkages and clientelism, and the relationship between political parties and social movements, \u003ci\u003eWinning Hearts and Votes\u003c\/i\u003e details the history, operations, and political effects of the Muslim Brotherhood's much discussed but little understood social service network.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Transliteration\u003cbr\u003e 1. Social Services and Political Mobilization in Nondemocratic Regimes\u003cbr\u003e 2. Middle-Class Provision, Reputation, and Electoral Success\u003cbr\u003e 3. Rebuilding the Brotherhood Brand\u003cbr\u003e 4. Inside the Islamist Advantage\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Political Geography of Islamist Social Service Provision\u003cbr\u003e 6. Electing to Serve\u003cbr\u003e 7. Mohammed Morsi's Machine\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Politics of Social Service Provision\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702497538328,"sku":"9781501730627","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/winning-hearts-and-votes-social-services-and-the-islamist-political-advantage-hardback-9781501730627","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}