Sylvia I. Bergh is a Swedish national, working since 2007 as Senior Lecturer in Development Management and Governance at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. She holds a D.Phil. in Development Studies from the University of Oxford and has worked for the World Bank in Washington D.C. and Morocco.

• 1. Introduction: Researching the effects of neoliberal reforms on local governance in the Southern Mediterranean 2. Neoliberal Reform and Socio-Structural Reconfiguration in Cairo’s Popular Quarters: The Rise of the Lesser Notables in Misr Al Qadima 3. The Neoliberal Transformation of Local Government in Turkey and the Contracting Out of Municipal Services: Implications for Public Accountability 4. Municipalities Go to Market: Economic Reform and Political Contestation in Jordan 5. Water Privatization Dynamics in Morocco: A Critical Assessment of the Casablancan Case 6. The Private Sector and Local Elites: The Experience of Public–Private Partnership in the Water Sector in Tripoli, Lebanon 7 .‘Inclusive’ Neoliberalism, Local Governance Reforms and the Redeployment of State Power: The Case of the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH) in Morocco 8. Conflicting Articulations of Citizenship under a Neoliberal State Project: The Contested Implementation of the Israeli Workfare Programme

Sylvia I. Bergh is a Swedish national, working since 2007 as Senior Lecturer in Development Management and Governance at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. She holds a D.Phil. in Development Studies from the University of Oxford and has worked for the World Bank in Washington D.C. and Morocco.

• 1. Introduction: Researching the effects of neoliberal reforms on local governance in the Southern Mediterranean 2. Neoliberal Reform and Socio-Structural Reconfiguration in Cairo’s Popular Quarters: The Rise of the Lesser Notables in Misr Al Qadima 3. The Neoliberal Transformation of Local Government in Turkey and the Contracting Out of Municipal Services: Implications for Public Accountability 4. Municipalities Go to Market: Economic Reform and Political Contestation in Jordan 5. Water Privatization Dynamics in Morocco: A Critical Assessment of the Casablancan Case 6. The Private Sector and Local Elites: The Experience of Public–Private Partnership in the Water Sector in Tripoli, Lebanon 7 .‘Inclusive’ Neoliberalism, Local Governance Reforms and the Redeployment of State Power: The Case of the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH) in Morocco 8. Conflicting Articulations of Citizenship under a Neoliberal State Project: The Contested Implementation of the Israeli Workfare Programme

Sylvia I. Bergh is a Swedish national, working since 2007 as Senior Lecturer in Development Management and Governance at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. She holds a D.Phil. in Development Studies from the University of Oxford and has worked for the World Bank in Washington D.C. and Morocco.

• 1. Introduction: Researching the effects of neoliberal reforms on local governance in the Southern Mediterranean 2. Neoliberal Reform and Socio-Structural Reconfiguration in Cairo’s Popular Quarters: The Rise of the Lesser Notables in Misr Al Qadima 3. The Neoliberal Transformation of Local Government in Turkey and the Contracting Out of Municipal Services: Implications for Public Accountability 4. Municipalities Go to Market: Economic Reform and Political Contestation in Jordan 5. Water Privatization Dynamics in Morocco: A Critical Assessment of the Casablancan Case 6. The Private Sector and Local Elites: The Experience of Public–Private Partnership in the Water Sector in Tripoli, Lebanon 7 .‘Inclusive’ Neoliberalism, Local Governance Reforms and the Redeployment of State Power: The Case of the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH) in Morocco 8. Conflicting Articulations of Citizenship under a Neoliberal State Project: The Contested Implementation of the Israeli Workfare Programme