Citizens’ Involvement in Policy Framing in Egypt: The Heliopolis Historic Tram as a Case Study

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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Autor Principal: Magued, Shaimaa
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Idioma:Anglais
Publicado: International Review of Public Policy 2026
Sujets:
autocracies
policymaking
problem framing
the Heliopolis tram
Egypt
Acceso en liña:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:irpp_6367 https://doi.org/10.4000/16d1l urn:doi:10.4000/16d1l en https://journals.openedition.org/irpp/6367 2026-06-08T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/16d1l https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Citizens’ Involvement in Policy Framing in Egypt: The Heliopolis Historic Tram as a Case Study International Review of Public Policy International Public Policy Association info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2706-6274 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2679-3873 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/irpp Magued, Shaimaa autocracies policymaking problem framing the Heliopolis tram Egypt 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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topic autocracies
policymaking
problem framing
the Heliopolis tram
Egypt
spellingShingle autocracies
policymaking
problem framing
the Heliopolis tram
Egypt
Magued, Shaimaa
Citizens’ Involvement in Policy Framing in Egypt: The Heliopolis Historic Tram as a Case Study
description 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.
author Magued, Shaimaa
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author_sort Magued, Shaimaa
title Citizens’ Involvement in Policy Framing in Egypt: The Heliopolis Historic Tram as a Case Study
title_short Citizens’ Involvement in Policy Framing in Egypt: The Heliopolis Historic Tram as a Case Study
title_full Citizens’ Involvement in Policy Framing in Egypt: The Heliopolis Historic Tram as a Case Study
title_fullStr Citizens’ Involvement in Policy Framing in Egypt: The Heliopolis Historic Tram as a Case Study
title_full_unstemmed Citizens’ Involvement in Policy Framing in Egypt: The Heliopolis Historic Tram as a Case Study
title_sort citizens’ involvement in policy framing in egypt: the heliopolis historic tram as a case study
publisher International Review of Public Policy
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