Democratisation in the Maghreb

J.N.C. Hill

Open Access Published by Edinburgh University Press 2016

Democratisation in the Maghreb

J.N.C. Hill

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474408981

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Compares the political development of four Maghreb countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania

The past few years have been a period of unprecedented political upheaval for the Maghreb. A protest which began in a provincial city in one of North Africa’s quieter corners quickly engulfed the entire region. Presidents of decades standing were swept from office on waves of public discontent while their counterparts elsewhere nervously tried to calm the mob. In several places these protests are still being played out; in the law courts of Egypt, on the battlefields of Libya, and in the leaking tubs carrying migrants to Europe. And even where the winds of change have died down, the political and social landscape is altered from before.

Herein lies a defining paradox of the Arab Spring; its ubiquity and singularity. Nearly all of the region’s countries have been affected. But despite making similar demands in largely the same ways over much the same period, their respective protest movements have achieved different results. Drawing on Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way’s celebrated model for examining political transitions, this book explains these discrepancies, why Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania have reached different outcomes. It does so by contextualising each country’s experiences, by examining and comparing their political development over the past decade.

Key features

Systematically uses Levitsky’s and Way’s model to interrogate Morocco’s, Algeria’s, Tunisia’s and Mauritania’s recent political development
The inclusion of Mauritania is a valuable adidition rarely seen in the literature
Considers, but does not focus solely on the Arab Spring, charting the years preceding and proceeding it

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
1 Levitsky and Way and Competitive Authoritarianism: Leverage, Linkage and Organisational Power Open Access Download PDF	9
2 Tunisia Open Access Download PDF	47
3 Algeria Open Access Download PDF	98
4 Morocco Open Access Download PDF	144
5 Mauritania Open Access Download PDF	178
Conclusions Open Access Download PDF	205
Index Open Access Download PDF	211

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Keywords: Islamic Studies

eBook

Published: July 18, 2016
ISBN: 9781474408981