shar’s Reviews > Hezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon's Party of God > Status Update

"An important part of Hezbollah’s legitimacy in its early days was the military struggle it waged against the Israeli occupation ... the organization set up its own social services independently from the state, guaranteed the distribution of electricity during power outages, took care of garbage collection ... provided jobs [and] those employed in [its] institutions were not required to join the party."