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Adviser to The King: Experts, Rationalization, and Legitimacy / Jones, Calvert W   Journal Article
Jones, Calvert W Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract Do experts rationalize and legitimize authoritarian governance? Although research on expert actors in contexts of democracy and international governance is now extensive, scholarly work on their role in authoritarian settings remains limited. This article helps open the black box of authoritarian decision-making by investigating expert advisers in the Arab Gulf monarchies, where ruling elites have enlisted them from top universities and global consulting firms. Qualitative fieldwork combined with three experiments casts doubt on both the rationalization and legitimacy hypotheses and also generates new insights surrounding unintended consequences. On rationalization, the evidence suggests that experts contribute to perverse cycles of overconfidence among authoritarian ruling elites, thereby enabling a belief in state-building shortcuts. On legitimacy, the experiments demonstrate a backfire effect, with experts reducing public support for reform. The author makes theoretical contributions by suggesting important and heretofore unrecognized conflicts and trade-offs across experts’ potential for rationalizing vis-à-vis legitimizing.
Key Words Authoritarianism  Bureaucracy  Governance  Consultants  Arab World  Expertise 
Experts  Gulf Monarchies  Expert Advisers 
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ID:   029158


Business efficiency: an ABC of advisory services / England, National Economic Development Office. 1968  Book
London.National Economic Development Office Book
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Publication London, Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1968.
Description vi, 162p.Pbk
Standard Number 117003786
Key Words Management  Consultants  Business Efficiency 
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007061658.46/BUS 007061MainOn ShelfGeneral 
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ID:   034096


Internal consultant / Dekom, Anton K 1969  Book
Dekom, Anton K Book
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Publication New York, American Management Assocation, Inc., 1969.
Description 102pPbk
Series Ama Research Study
Standard Number 814431011
Key Words Management  Consultants  Internal Consultant 
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009842658.46/DEK 009842MainOn ShelfGeneral 
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ID:   025458


Manual on the use of consultants in developing countries / United Nations 1968  Book
United Nations Book
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Publication New York, United Nations Publications, 1968.
Description ix, 158p.Pbk
Key Words Developing Countries  Consultants  Manual 
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001825658.46091724/UNI 001825MainOn ShelfGeneral 
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Raptures and ruptures of mobility / Amit, Vered   Journal Article
Amit, Vered Journal Article
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Publication 2012.
Summary/Abstract This article examines the ways in which the trope of rupture has progressively figured in my studies of diverse forms of mobility. Ironically, this has occurred at the same time as an increasing orientation within migration studies towards transnational links has given a strong emphasis on continuity. I argue that this kind of methodological transnationalism does not give enough attention either to the disjunctures that are routinely involved in mobility or to the possibility that rupture might be an actively desired goal for moving either temporarily or for the longer term.
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