Democratisation as a learning process

The case of Morocco

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3979249
AutoresMohamed El Hachimi, Mohamed Hachimi (0000-0002-5441-9531, Université Ibn Zohr, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen20
Número5
Páginas754-769
Fecha de publicación2015-10-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13629387.2015.1081463
OpenAlexW1933715857
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas12

Morocco did not experience any radical/revolutionary change in 2011 and it does not seem to be following the conventional steps of the transition paradigm (Liberalisation, breakthrough, and consolidation). However, this situation does not necessarily mean the country is stuck with the status quo. It can be rather analysed as a third way of democratisation, referred to sometimes in the Moroccan political context as 'the Moroccan exceptionalism', and it is shaped by several factors that are specific to the Moroccan society, inter alia, the political culture, the prevailing value system, the nature of the party system, etc. In light of the above, the paper focuses on two interrelated aspects of the evolutionary democratisation process in Morocco: It analyses the history and origins of the current unprecedented cohabitation between the king and an Islamist chief of government, and the extent to which this cohabitation is likely to pave the way for a more democratic power-sharing. It also examines its implications for the practical functioning of the system (in terms of the emergence of a Moroccan specific polity, by focusing on, e.g., democracy-learning

Cohabitation · Democracy · Democratic consolidation · Democratization · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Exceptionalism · Liberalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Sociology · Status quo · African Studies and Ethnography · African Studies and Geopolitics · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender