Rabab El-Mahdi, Ph.D. (2005), Political Science, McGill University. Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo. Co-Editor of Egypt: The Moment for Change (Zed Press, 2009). Her aticles were published in Comparative Political Studies, Review of African Political Economy, and Politics, Religion, & Ideology.

• List of AcronymsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Civil Society, the State, Neoliberalism, and Social Policy3. Two Civil Societies: History and Evolution4. The Egyptian Social Fund for Development: Is it Such a Failure?5. The Bolivian Fund: Is it Really the Model?6. Engineering Consent: The De-Politicization of the PoliticalAppendix: A Note on Research Methodology and TechniquesPostscriptInterviewsBibliographyIndex

Rabab El-Mahdi, Ph.D. (2005), Political Science, McGill University. Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo. Co-Editor of Egypt: The Moment for Change (Zed Press, 2009). Her aticles were published in Comparative Political Studies, Review of African Political Economy, and Politics, Religion, & Ideology.

• List of AcronymsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Civil Society, the State, Neoliberalism, and Social Policy3. Two Civil Societies: History and Evolution4. The Egyptian Social Fund for Development: Is it Such a Failure?5. The Bolivian Fund: Is it Really the Model?6. Engineering Consent: The De-Politicization of the PoliticalAppendix: A Note on Research Methodology and TechniquesPostscriptInterviewsBibliographyIndex

Rabab El-Mahdi, Ph.D. (2005), Political Science, McGill University. Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo. Co-Editor of Egypt: The Moment for Change (Zed Press, 2009). Her aticles were published in Comparative Political Studies, Review of African Political Economy, and Politics, Religion, & Ideology.

• List of AcronymsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Civil Society, the State, Neoliberalism, and Social Policy3. Two Civil Societies: History and Evolution4. The Egyptian Social Fund for Development: Is it Such a Failure?5. The Bolivian Fund: Is it Really the Model?6. Engineering Consent: The De-Politicization of the PoliticalAppendix: A Note on Research Methodology and TechniquesPostscriptInterviewsBibliographyIndex