Party Practices in the Context of Lebanon’s Sectarian Political System
Explaining the Unachieved Goals of the Free Patriotic Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10278515 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph P Helou (0000-0003-2483-3069, Lebanese American University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 181-203 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Middle East Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-3141 • E-ISSN: 1940-3461 |
| Publisher | The Middle East Journal (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3751/77.2.13 |
| OpenAlex | W4390071336 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article explores why Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) shifted from opposing the dominant political practices in the country after the 1975–90 civil war — bargaining, power-sharing, narrow parochial discourse, and patron-client relations — to adopting them upon its transformation to a political party in 2005. While FPM leaders Michel Aoun and Gebran Bassil bear some blame for the party’s embrace of the sectarian political system, this article looks at this transformation through the lens of sociologist Anthony Giddens’s theory of structuration. This framework reveals the role of social practices and the reproduction of systems and structures in the FPM’s sectarian transformation
Blame · Context (archaeology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sectarianism · Social movement · Sociology · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Political Conflict and Governance · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |