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- Title: Bedouins into Bourgeois
- Author : Calvert W. Jones
- Release Date : January 29, 2017
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 10633 KB
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How are state leaders adapting their citizen-building strategies for globalization? What outcomes are they achieving, and why? Bedouins into Bourgeois investigates an ambitious state-led social engineering campaign in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where leaders aimed to encourage more entrepreneurial, market-friendly, patriotic, and civic-minded citizens, who were still loyal to the regime. Extensive ethnography - including interviews with a ruling monarch - reveals the rulers' reasoning and goals for social engineering. Through surveys and experiments, social engineering outcomes are examined, as well as the reasons for these outcomes. While the campaign successfully increased patriotism and civic spirit, it also led to heightened entitlement - greater support for the right to a government job and lessened interest in the private sector - and a rise in 'entitled patriots.' This fascinating study illustrates how social engineering strategies that use nationalism to motivate citizens can have paradoxical effects, increasing patriotism but unexpectedly discouraging or 'crowding out' development-friendly mind-sets.