ABSTRACT
Kuwait's history, popular participation in government has frequently taken place on an informal level. The widespread introduction of educational facilities: primary and secondary schools were established, together with scholarships for advanced study abroad. The rulers of Kuwait in the present century have been chosen alternatively from the descendants of Salim and Jabir, two of the sons of Mubarak the Great who had themselves been rulers. It was during the 1950s that Kuwait first became exposed to events in the rest of the Arab world. With the loosening of British ties imd the growing focus of international attention on what was regarded as a modern Eldorado, and with the major changes taking place in the Arab world, Kuwait suddenly seemed unable to resist the force of these changes. This last attack provoked the anger of the deputies, who considered the government to have been seriously lacking in its essential task of guarding Kuwait's one and only resource.
