Policy-Making in a Transformative State

M. Evren Tok is an assistant professor andprogram coordinator at the Public Policy in Islam Program, Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. His teaching and researchrevolves around state-market-society relations, policy analysis, naturalresource governance and Islamic perspectives on sustainability.Lolwah Alkhater is a policy analyst. Herresearch interests include education reform, human capital development, familyand identity and religion in the public sphere. She is also a part-timelecturer in the Department of Public Administration and Development Economies atthe Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, and a member of the board of directorsof the ‘Naqd wa Tanweer’ (Enlightenment and Critique) Centre for Humanities, apan-Arab initiative.Leslie A. Pal is Chancellor’s Professor ofPublic Policy and Administration at Carleton University, Canada. He haspublished extensively on international policy transfer, comparative publicpolicy, and governance.

• Chapter 1: Qatar: Policy-Making in a Transformative State-. Chapter 2: Qatar's Constitutional and Legal System-. Chapter 3: Policy-Making in Qatar: The Macro-Policy Framework-. Chapter 4: Qatar's Borrowed K-12 Education Reform in Context-. Chapter 5: Transforming Qatar's PSE: Achievements and Concessions-. Chapter 6: Fragmentation and Continuity in Qatar's Urbanism: Towards a Hub Vision-. Chapter 7: Health Policy-making in a Transformative State-. Chapter 8: The Qatari Family at the Intersection of Policies-. Chapter 9: Public Policy and Identity-. Chapter 10: Demographic Policies and Human Capital Challenges-. Chapter 11: Integrated Water, Energy, and Food Governance: A Qatari Perspective-. Chapter 12: Macroeconomic Stabilization Policies and Sustainable Growth in Qatar-. Chapter 13: Qatar's Global-Local Nexus: From Soft to Nested Power?-. Chapter 14: Conclusion