Algeria's presidential election
The Rejection of Compromise
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3979399 |
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| Authors | Mohand Salah Tahi (University of Warwick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 279-305 |
| Publication date | 1996-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13629389608718282 |
| OpenAlex | W1974622141 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The Algerian regime is based on the vestiges of a single party system, but lacks its internal logic, depending instead on equilibrium between competing political currents and clans. The current Algerian drama confronts an undemocratic military system, supported by Algeria's political police, the Security Militaire, which safeguards its privileges, with radical Islamists exploiting the hopelessness of Algerian youth. The consequent atomisation of society, now accustomed to daily violence, has been exploited through the presidential election put forward cynically by its initiators as part of the process of ‘democratic transition
Art · Clan · Compromise · Democracy · Drama · Literature · Political economy · Political science · Political system · Politics · Presidential election · Presidential system · Sociology · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature · Political and Social Issues
| Highly cited | No |
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