Regime change and elite behaviour

The case of the 2010-2011 Tunisian uprisings

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3979353
AutoresBilel Kchouk (University of Ottawa, autor correspondente), Aaida Mamuji (0000-0003-2058-4755, Disaster & Emergency Management, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada)
Ano2019
Volume24
Fascículo6
Páginas896-913
Data de publicação2019-11-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13629387.2018.1466467
OpenAlexW2801790909
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas32

This paper focuses on the practices, decisions and transformations experienced by the Tunisian Politically Relevant Elites (PRE) during the popular uprising of 17 December 2010 – 14 January 2011. Based on a series of interviews with these PREs, we show that this event constituted a political crisis leading to regime change without defection from security, economic and political elites. In other words, Ben Ali's authoritarian regime fell without any regime crisis, i.e. without any break in the relations and rule of command between the major PREs

Democracy · Development economics · Economic geography · Economics · Elite · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Regime change · Historical and Political Studies · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Political and Social Issues