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Democratization in Morocco: The Political Elite and Struggles for Power in the Post-Independence State book cover

1st Edition

Democratization in Morocco The Political Elite and Struggles for Power in the Post-Independence State

By Lise Storm Copyright 2007
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge
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This book explores the political games of the Moroccan democratization process in the period from independence in 1956 until 2006. By combining a great degree of political theory with empirical material on Morocco, it analyzes the strategies and actions of the various political actors and evaluates the level of democracy present in the country after the adoption of new constitutions in 1962,... Read more

Introduction  1. Government after Independence: Indigenous Leadership with Colonial Habits, 1956-72  2. Government after Independence II: Indigenous Leadership with Colonial Habits, 1972-90  3. Intensification of the Democratization Process, 1990-96  4. Reasonably Competitive, Free and Fair Elections (1996-2006)  5. Basic Civil Liberties (1996-2006)  6. Independent Government (1996-2006)  7. Independent Government, II.  Conclusion: Dynamics of Democratization in Post-Independence Morocco

Biography

Lise Storm is Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the Department of Politics, University of Exeter, UK.  Her main fields of research are democratization and party system theory, focusing mainly on experiences from Latin America and the Middle East.

'Storm's Democratization in Morocco is well balanced and judicious in its empirical analysis and could be used in any upper division undergraduate course or introductory graduate course on democratization in the Middle East and North Africa' - Mohamed Daadaoui, Oklahoma City University, Int. J. Middle East Studies. 41 (2009)
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