Conference Paper
State-Society Relations and Industrial Sustainable Growth: The Case of Post-Revolution Tunisia
No.
ERF29AC_119
Publisher
ERF
Date
May, 2023
This paper investigates the effect of state-society relations (SSR) in the industrial sector on sustainable economic growth of post-Revolution Tunisia. The empirical part of the paper depends mainly on qualitative data collected from fieldwork interviews with the most important actors and publications of CSOs. The paper suggests the presence of State Capture as the defining characteristic of SSR in post-Revolution Tunisia. The combination of having powerful tycoons, weaker state, and ineffectively organized social actors produced conditions that harmed sustainability. These settings allowed tycoons to violate environmental regulations and prevented Green innovation and the adoption of Green technologies. Two important industrial sectors with notorious record of environmental pollution are studied.
Authors
Mohamed Ismail Sabry
Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, International Institute of Social...