IRAQI POLITICAL ELITES AND THE MANAGEMENT OF THE NATIONAL POLTICAL ECONOMY: BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION AND POWER STRUGGLE

Abstract

In transition democratic societies, emerging political elites have a structural role in reshaping of the economic management of the country. In Iraq, this relationship had been studied; through the way these elites filled the institutions inherited from the totalitarian system, and how the international actors have adopted the retention of these institutions. The research variables were checked by using descriptive and quantitative methods. These showed that the Iraqi political elites way of administration has created a chaotic economic system; characterized by competitive authoritarianism. The composition of Iraqi economy is usually combined with accumulated behavioral values of the elites, so it turned out that these elites made use of the Iraqi economy for electoral purposes to buy loyalties, and deal with the economy as a generator of power through monopolies, this act has reinforced the principle of the state patronage, gifts and corruption. which is contradicts the set of goals required to transitional period which set by the international parties.