Law-on-paper routinely diverges from law-as-implemented in Egypt’s military bureaucracy
Evidence
Rather, the aim was to complement the impressive picture of the law that Mitchell provides with the more fractured one of its implementation and to elaborate on the nature of and reasons for the discrepancy between both pictures. Specifically, the aim was to contrast a decree of Mehmed Ali, for example, with the understanding of a petty bureaucrat to whom it was addressed for implementation, to juxtapose a sanitary manual by Clot Bey with the soldiers’ resistance to having their bodies so minutely investigated, and to compare a “neat” conscription order with the repeated attempts – sometimes successful, at other times not of the soldiers to escape their units and desert the army altogether. This contrast of the law with its implementation was not reproduced here to argue that these institutions of power completely failed or that they were practically ignored by the people; rather this juxtaposition was required for two main reasons. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1699
Categorization
- QUESTION: The ‘two main reasons’ cited for the juxtaposition are stated but not enumerated in this paragraph — worth noting what they turn out to be in the text that follows.
- XREF: connects to: Egypt’s military regulations diverged systematically from their actual daily implementation. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1112; Implementation gaps in Egyptian law stemmed from local resistance, not just institutional design — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 115; Discrepancies between military laws and practice had three distinct causes (+2 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Egypt’s military regulations diverged systematically from their actual daily implementation. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1112; Implementation gaps in Egyptian law stemmed from local resistance, not just institutional design — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 115; Discrepancies between military laws and practice had three distinct causes (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Egypt’s military regulations diverged systematically from their actual daily implementation.
#corroborates(0.97) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1112