A Struggle for Institutionalization
The Tunisian Assemblée des Répresentants du Peuple and the Dominance of Consensus-Oriented Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6160723 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chahd Bahri (University of Sousse, corresponding author), Jan Claudius Völkel (0000-0001-9287-8512, University of Freiburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 272-293 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Middle East Law and Governance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1876-3367 • E-ISSN: 1876-3375 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18763375-13031234 |
| OpenAlex | W3180100908 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This article is part of the Special Issue “Parliaments in the Middle East and North Africa: A Struggle for Relevance.” Tunisia’s parliament has undergone a remarkable internal transformation process since 2011, from a formerly mostly irrelevant institution to an influential locus of policy-making. This successful progress notwithstanding, the parliament’s transformation to a democratic assembly has not been fully concluded yet. A main challenge is that the legislature still shows a number of characteristics of an “authoritarian parliament”: besides a lack of staff and financial resources, the continuous dominance of personal kinship over institutionalized power structures remains particularly problematic. While private networks of individual decision-makers were perceived as crucial for Tunisia’s stability during the turbulent post-revolution years, they concomitantly contain the risk for a resurrection of former authoritarian structures. The article thus traces the Tunisian parliament’s major transformation steps from a former irrelevant legislature to a consolidated, influential assembly, and points out the still existing challenges
Authoritarianism · Democracy · Dominance (genetics · Legislature · Parliament · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European Political History Analysis · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Political and Social Issues · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |