Browsing Social & Economic Survey Research Institute Research by Author "Gengler, Justin"
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Annual Omnibus Survey : A survey of life in Qatar 2012
( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University. , 2012 , Other)This executive summary presents the highlights of the 2012 Omnibus survey, the third in a series of Omnibus surveys, carried out by the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) of Qatar University. The Omnibus ... -
Civic life and democratic citizenship in Qatar: Findings from the First Qatar World Values Survey
( Brill Academic , 2013 , Article)The present study examines the Arab nation that has remained least affected by the regional upheaval that has gripped much of the Middle East and North Africa since the beginning of 2011: the Gulf state of Qatar. Using ... -
Civil society and democratization in the Arab Gulf
( http://foreignpolicy.com/ , 2011 , Article)qatar has been a notable exception to the wave of popular political mobilization that has struck Arab countries since January 2011. This is particularly so given the prominent role of its state-owned television station Al ... -
Creating and sustaining Islamic financial centers: Bahrain in the wake of financial and political crises
( Taylor & Francis , 2016 , Article)Although primarily concentrated in countries with Muslim majorities, Islamic finance has become a global industry representing both a decentering of the global financial architecture and the emergence of an urban network ... -
Crisis, State Legitimacy, and Political Participation in a Non-Democracy: How Qatar Withstood the 2017 Blockade
( Middle East Institute , 2019 , Article)This article uses rare, nationally representative survey data collected before and after the blockade of Qatar that began in June 2017 to assess its impact on citizens’ orientations toward the Gulf Cooperation Council, ... -
No (Gulf) Country for Syrian Refugees
( The Council on Foreign Relations , 2015 , Article)A common reaction to the ongoing migrant crisis has been to blame Europe: how can the wealthy nations of western Europe allow such a tragedy? More recently, however, media and popular scrutiny have turned back toward the ... -
The Political Costs of Qatar's Western Orientation
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Public Spending Priorities in Qatar
( SESRI , 2017 , Report)Together with previous survey findings, SESRI’s study of fiscal priorities among Qataris demonstrates the importance to citizens of healthcare and education, and to a lesser extent other sectors such as social security ... -
Qatar’s first elections since 2017 reveal unexpected impact of GCC crisis
( Al-Monitor , 2019 , Article)Turnout in the Qatari municipal election has declined, suggesting a Qatari citizenry that is slightly less engaged in the formal political process in the wake of the GCC crisis. -
Renegotiating the Ruling Bargain: Selling Fiscal Reform in the GCC
( Middle East Institution , 2016 , Article)Built upon depletable reservoirs of oil and natural gas, the petro-states of the Arab Gulf have, since their beginning, always had one eye fixated on the end: the exhaustion of their life-giving natural resources, and ... -
Research Report: The Political Economy of Sectarianism in the Gulf Region
( Carnegie Endowment for International Peace , 2017 , Other)This collection seeks to advance our understanding of intra-Islamic identity conflict in the Middle East. Instead of treating distinctions between and within Sunni and Shia Islam as primordial and immutable, it examines ... -
Sectarianism from the Top Down or Bottom Up? Explaining the Middle East’s Unlikely De-sectarianization after the Arab Spring
( Taylor and Francis , 2020 , Article)Sectarian politics has retreated across the Middle East in the years after the Arab Spring, even as conflict between the region’s two main sectarian actors—Iran and Saudi Arabia—has intensified. This essay explores this ... -
Views of the Gulf Cooperation Council among Qatari and Other Gulf Nationals
( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University , 2016 , Report)Here we examine the orientations of Qatari citizens toward the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) as revealed in a pan-GCC survey conducted in 2016. We assess general attitudes toward the Council as an institution, toward ...
