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Political Parties in Post-Uprising Tunisia and Morocco: Organization, Development and Legitimation

Political Parties in Post-Uprising Tunisia and Morocco: Organization, Development and Legitimation

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Mediterranean Politics

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1032169214
ISBN13: 9781032169217
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 31 2023
Pages: 218
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book offers a comparative, theory-grounded study of Maghrebi political parties since the Arab uprisings, specifically focused on Tunisia and Morocco in the first decade after the 2011 watershed elections.

Based on primary sources, including in-depth interviews and updated party statutes and bylaws, the author introduces four case studies of key Islamist and anti-Islamist parties, exploring their organisational standing, internal working, and legitimating assets. By dwelling into a topic long neglected, the author provides insight into the hybrid nature of political parties in the Maghreb, oscillating between juxtaposed traditional and modern discourses and ambivalent sources of political authority. As such, it is hybridisation that shapes parties' organisational choices and development and accounts for differences within parties. In the wake of political liberalisation, the author argues that political parties have become increasingly distant from society, distrusted by a large part of the citizenry. Ultimately, the Tunisian and Moroccan cases invite reflection on similar phenomena taking place within the Middle East and North Africa region, and even outside of it.

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