After authoritarianism: Economic and social policies in Tunisia and Egypt
Channel: gdnetcairo
Date: 28/10/2013

In this video, Eberhard Kienle (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS) talks to us about his paper "After authoritarianism: Economic and social policies in Tunisia and Egypt" which investigates the reasons why economic and social policies of newly elected governments - in the aftermath of the Arab spring - do not differ much from those of their predecessors. Kienle challenges the idea that democratic regimes allow the change to happen; economic and social improvements. According to him, two implications arise: the entire uprisings in 2010 and 2011 were perhaps not that much about economic and social issues as it has often been portrayed; maybe they were about economic and social issues but the elected governments did not take such issues seriously. 
Read the paper http://www.erf.org.eg/CMS/uploads/pdf/Eberhard.pdf

ERF workshop "The political economy of transformation in the ERF region"
27-28 October, 2013
Tunis, Tunisia