Islamists and the regime

Applying a new framework for analysis to the case of Family Code reforms in Morocco

Bibliographic Data

ID6314867
AuthorsSerida Lucrezia Catalano (Bocconi University)
Year2013
Volume19
Issue3
Pages408-431
Publication date2013-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueParty Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1354-0688 • E-ISSN: 1460-3683
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1354068811407577
OpenAlexW2036427577
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited22

This paper develops a theoretical framework for analyzing the strategic interaction between Islamists – pragmatic and dogmatic – and the regime when Shari’a-based issues are negotiated. I advance the new notion that pragmatists might be responsive to the Islamist electorate. Within the framework I generate the hypothesis that, if the regime promotes substantive reforms and the Islamist electorate supports them, then the internal cohesiveness of Islamist parties is weakened. In the case of Family Code reforms in Morocco, empirical analysis confirms that Islamists' change of strategy in 2003 – from opposing to not opposing the reforms – was due to changed preferences within the electorate in favour of reform. This change in preferences was matched by deep divisions within the Islamists of the Parti de la Justice et du Développement and had dramatic repercussions upon the internal cohesiveness of the party

Democracy · Economic Justice · Economics · Epistemology · Group cohesiveness · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Pragmatism · Regime change · Sociology · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development

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