| Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon On the basis of years of research into the varying welfare distribution strategies of Christian, Shia Muslim, and Sunni Muslim political parties in Lebanon, Cammett shows how and why sectarian groups deploy welfare benefits. Melani Cammett is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University. She is the author of Globalization and Business Politics in North Africa and the coeditor of The Politics of Non-state Social Welfare , also from Cornell. |