Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon

by Melani Cammett

Book Overview

In Lebanon, religious parties such as Hezbollah play a critical role in providing health care, food, poverty relief, and other social welfare services alongside or in the absence of government efforts. Some parties distribute goods and services broadly, even to members of other parties or other faiths, while others allocate services more narrowly to their own base. In Compassionate Communalism, Melani Cammett analyzes the political logics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801478936
• ISBN13: 9780801478932
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher