Social Change by Decree: Autocratic Reforms and Social Norms

• In Event: Public Opinion in the MENA Region: Religion, Identity, and Democratic Attitudes

Brief Overview

Under what conditions can elites in autocracies recondition the ordinary and established social practices of everyday life? This paper explores this through an experiment to study the consequences of state reforms on social norms in Saudi Arabia.

Author

• Hood Ahmed, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor