| Social Dictatorships: The Political Economy of the Welfare State in the Middle East and North Africa Ferdinand Eibl, Lecturer in Political Economy, King's College London, UK Ferdinand Eibl is a Lecturer in Political Economy at King's College London. He was previously a Postdoctoral Research Officer at the London School of Economics, and his research focuses on the political economy of authoritatian rule in the Middle East and North Africa, in particular in the areas of distributive politics, cronyism, and the political economy of coup-proofing. |