Authoritarian resilience and democratic representation in Morocco

Royal interference and political parties’ leaderships since the 2016 elections

Bibliographic Data

ID8107211
AuthorsThierry Desrues (0000-0002-7097-405X, Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume25
Issue2
Pages254-262
Publication date2018-11-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMediterranean Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-9395 • E-ISSN: 1743-9418
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13629395.2018.1543038
OpenAlexW2899746079
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited2

After the ‘Arab Spring’ and the second electoral victory of the Islamist party of Justice and Development in 2016, Moroccan King Mohammed VI had to find new ways to reduce the uncertainty of transparent elections and, as a result, his loss of control over the winner of the House of Representatives elections and the choice of the Head of Government. This profile will analyse a few of the paradoxical implications of the 2011 constitutional reform and the royal narrative for democratic transition, and how these have impacted the political practice of the relevant actors. More precisely, the profile will attempt to clarify the various accommodations by both the King and the political parties, to contextualize the reform and better understand the persistence of authoritarian features despite the democratic hybridization of the Moroccan political system

Authoritarianism · Democracy · Democratization · Government (linguistics · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Resilience (materials science · Sociology · Victory · African Studies and Ethnography · African Studies and Geopolitics · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender

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