Abstract
The objective of this study is to identify the impact of economic reform on political reform in Jordan. This is achieved in three stages, commencing with developing the methodological framework of the study. This was followed by creating a theoretical scale of the relationship between economic and political reform by the use of moderating variables, which was applied to the Jordanian experience in the third and final stage of the research. The study results revealed that the economic reform (the independent variable) had a moderate impact on political reform (dependent variable) during the study period (1989-2016). The overall value of the six indices of economic reform was moderate, as was the overall value of the six indices pertinent to political reform. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that Jordan’s political regime is partly free, with restricted democracy that has presently not fully matured, as it suffers from governmental and parliamentary instability, weak political participation, widespread corruption and weak governmental efficiency. The results also suggest lack of political will to achieve the desired reform and absence of an economic vision to lead the country to a better future.
Highlights
Democratic rule is the inevitable path to political development
This was followed by creating a theoretical scale of the relationship between economic and political reform by the use of moderating variables, which was applied to the Jordanian experience in the third and final stage of the research
The application of this comparative methodology required that the researchers adopt different methodic procedures that first identify the indices of the economic reform as the independent variable, as described in the section The study variables identify the main indices of political reform that would form the dependent variable, which include the political pluralism index, that contains sub-indices, such as: legislative controls of forming official and unofficial political institutions, par
Summary
The aim of the present study is to explore the relationship between the economic reform and political reform in Jordan since the implementation of the Socioeconomic Transformation Program in 2001 [1]. This objective is met by conducting research in three distinct phases, starting with defining the methodological framework of the study, which includes hypotheses, variables and study methodology, among other aspects. The second phase is designated for the development of a theoretical qualitative scale, which could be used to measure the relationship between economic and political reform by the use of indices as moderating variables. This scale is applied to the Jordanian experience in the third phase of the study, to identify the impact of economic reform on political reform
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