Returning to Political Parties?
Partisan Logic and Political Transformations in the Arab World
Are Arab parties facing a predicament? Are they paying the price of repression and limited pluralism? Have they become obsolete to the benefit of other political groups and mobilization modes such as communities, tribes, “asabiyyat” or to the disadvantage of non governmental organizations, associations and social movements? While some predicted “the end of parties” in the region as a result of authoritarian political systems, doesn’t the recent transition from the one party rule towards a f...
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Cet ouvrage a été initialement publié par le Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, il bénéficie d'une co-édition électronique avec les Presses de l'Ifpo pour cette édition électronique.
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Éditeur : Presses de l’Ifpo, Lebanese Center for Policy Studies
Lieu d’édition : Beyrouth
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 13 février 2013
ISBN numérique : 978-2-35159-261-8
DOI : 10.4000/books.ifpo.1067
Collection : Contemporain Co-éditions
Année d’édition : 2010
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-886604-75-9
Nombre de pages : 328
Myriam Catusse et Karam Karam
A Return to Partisan Politics? Partisan logics and political transformations in the Arab worldLaurent Bonnefoy et Marine Poirier
The Yemeni Congregation for Reform (al-Islâh): The Difficult Process of Building a Project for ChangeMohammed Hennad
The National Liberation Front in AlgeriaEl-Hussein A’boushi
The Socialist Union of Popular Forces Party in MoroccoAbbas Mirza al-Mershed
The Islamic Movement and Its Chances of Developing into a Party: the Case of al-Wefâq National Islamic Society in BahrainCatherine Le Thomas
Socialization agencies and party dynamics: functions and uses of Hizballah schools in LebanonMounia Bennani-Chraïbi
“Businessmen” versus “Professors”: The parliamentary “notabilisation” of a party of militants in MoroccoMyriam Catusse et Lamia Zaki
The Transformations of the Justice and Development Party in Morocco in the Face of Urban GovernanceFaleh Abdel Jabbar
The Iraqi Communist PartyRaber Tal’at Jawhar
The Iraqi Turkmen Front
Are Arab parties facing a predicament? Are they paying the price of repression and limited pluralism? Have they become obsolete to the benefit of other political groups and mobilization modes such as communities, tribes, “asabiyyat” or to the disadvantage of non governmental organizations, associations and social movements? While some predicted “the end of parties” in the region as a result of authoritarian political systems, doesn’t the recent transition from the one party rule towards a fragile plural party system in many countries put again party organizations in the spotlight?
Most of the time, contemporary Arab parties have little mobilizing power. Yet some are crawling out of underground activities and trying their hands at the exercise of power after years of oppositions. Others, and mainly on the Islamist arena, assert themselves as first hand mobilization structures, able in certain cases to compete with regimes in power.
This book addresses those research questions. Emphasizing new and unpublished data, the book’s diverse contributions tackle holistically party life in six countries that have adopted very different political pathways: Yemen, Bahrain, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria and Iraq. All the studies approach the decline or the revival of the parties from a long term historical perspective mainly with regard to political institutions in those six countries. The studies focus on the rules of party games, on the junction between “the right to politics” and “political rights”. They reveal the fine-tuning between ideological frameworks and political strategies. They raise questions about the renewal of elites, forms of militant activism, the array of parties’ political activities, particularly social ones. They examine the issue of identity construction and political solidarities in the framework of the nation state, or in contradiction with it. As a final point, the book inquires about how party life in those six countries accounts for political transformations: possible democratization of regimes, forms of domination that are played out within those regimes, the emergence of the breakdown of leaderships and finally the rationale behind mobilization and collective action.
This book is published with the support of the program on Political Party Development in the Arab World (Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco and Yemen) financed by the International Development Research Center (Ottawa, Canada).This publication gathers a series of studies undertaken within this framework. More studies are available on the project's website: www.appstudies.org
The opinions expressed in this book are the responsibility of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies or the International Development Research Center. The chapters in the book have been translated from French and Arabic to English by Nathanel London, Francoise Gillepsie, Nathalie Nahas, Angelique Baino, Jennifer Berry and Assaad Makary.
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