Patrons, Clients and Civil Society: A Case Study of Environmental Politics in Postwar Lebanon
Author(s)
Kingston, Paul
Abstract
Traces the source of Lebanese environmental movements to attempts by nongovernmental organizations, advocates of civil society, to break the dominating power of traditional Lebanese local patron-client networks with a campaign based on national interest, and ascribes their relative ineffectiveness to their cooptation or infiltration by patronage groups.
