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Title: | From the new state to the new era: toward a Second Republic in Tunisia |
Author: | Vandewalle, D. |
Year: | 1988 |
Periodical: | Middle East Journal |
Volume: | 42 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 602-620 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tunisia |
Subjects: | political conditions popular participation 1960-1969 1970-1979 1980-1989 |
External link: | http://search.proquest.com/pao/docview/1290841571 |
Abstract: | This article traces the ascendancy and consolidation of the Tunisian State during the 1960s and the reemergence in the 1970s of several groups within Tunisian society that challenged its monopoly and demanded some form of participation. Underlying the disparate attempts of these groups is a wider ongoing process whose consequences the new President, Ben Ali, must face: the gradual breakdown during the past fifteen years of what was known as the New State, and the appearance of a number of groups, still uncoordinated, demanding greater access and real accommodation. The second part of the article analyses the constraints and possibilities that the new government faces while trying to implement policy changes. Three issues are likely to shape the President's agenda: a reappraisal of the political system, economic reforms, and the Islamist challenge. Notes, ref. |