Citizens’ Involvement in Policy Framing in Egypt: The Heliopolis Historic Tram as a Case Study
Drawing on Eric Neveu’s four-pronged problem framing, this study examines how citizens attempted to influence policymaking in Egypt’s electoral autocracy. Although policy theories have demonstrated conceptual flexibility and normative adaptation to capture policymaking in nondemocratic environments,...
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International Review of Public Policy
2026
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | Drawing on Eric Neveu’s four-pronged problem framing, this study examines how citizens attempted to influence policymaking in Egypt’s electoral autocracy. Although policy theories have demonstrated conceptual flexibility and normative adaptation to capture policymaking in nondemocratic environments, few studies have focused on policymaking in the Middle East, particularly in Egypt. This study brings Egypt into the literature addressing policymaking within repressive contexts by borrowing from Neveu’s Social Movement Theory framing steps to track citizens’ attempts to contribute to policymaking in Egypt. To this end, the study expands on the issue of emergence, problem formulation, diffusion, and solution suggestion. Using triangulation of findings from open-ended and semi-structured interviews, thematic analysis of a residents’ Facebook group, and the author’s personal observations, this study contends that the residents of the Heliopolis neighborhood bypassed Egypt’s restrictive context by using discursive and communication strategies to frame the state’s decision to remove the old tram as a significant loss of Cairo’s historical heritage on social media. This framing was in line with the government’s priorities and prompted its intervention from 2018 until 2022. |
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