Algeria's elections: The prelude to democractisation

Bouandel, Youcef; Zoubir, Yahia H.

doi:10.1080/01436599814406

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“…In November 1996, he amended the constitution which strengthened the presidency. In 1997, the institution-building process was completed with the holding of legislative elections in June, and local and regional elections in October (Bouandel & Zoubir 1998a).…”

Section: E L E C T O R a L E N G I N E E R I N G I I I : N E W R E F mentioning

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“…They have analysed the struggle within the different factions of the regime over the direction that these reforms should take. The roles of the military, President Chadli Bendjedid, the Islamists, political parties and foreign governments have also been addressed (Bouandel 2003;Bouandel & Zoubir 1998a;Quandt 1998;Roberts 1994Roberts , 1998Tahi 1994;Volpi 2003 ;Willis 1996 ;Zoubir 1995). Whilst these studies touched upon electoral systems, and Quandt (1998 : 131-3) analysed them in some detail, the issue of electoral reforms has not been given the attention it clearly deserves.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Reforming the Algerian electoral system

Bouandel

2005

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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In October 1988, Algeria began a process of transition from authoritarianism. Political reforms were introduced, on the surface, to facilitate the process of transition, but in reality to ensure the survival of the incumbent regime. The reform of the electoral system played a significant part in this survival strategy. Between 1989 and 1997, Algeria witnessed the adoption of three distinct electoral systems as the authorities sought ways to give a façade of democratisation while manipulating the rules to suit their purposes. This paper looks at the Algerian transition, asks why the Algerian authorities switched from one system to another, and assesses the impact of the three different electoral systems that the country has experienced.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Reforming the Algerian electoral system

Bouandel

2005

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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“…Political and economic reforms occurring in Arab countries were interpreted as steps on this path with scholars explaining both failures and successes through the framework and assumptions of democratisation linked to the perceived historical inevitability of democratic governance (Fukuyama 1992). Thus, when ruling elites began to introduce political reforms that guaranteed increased pluralism or economic reforms aimed at strengthening the market economy, these were seen as inevitable developments towards the establishment of western‐style democracy (Bouandel & Zoubir 1998; Ryan 1998; Dillman 2000). When these reforms failed scholars focused their attention on what went wrong and searched for the ‘missing ingredient’ to Arab democratisation (Kubba 2000).…”

Section: Islamism and The Inter‐paradigm Debatementioning

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The War on Terror and the Transformation of Political Islam

Cavatorta

2012

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The war on terror intensified widespread misconceptions about the nature and complexity of Islamism. The paper analyses the trajectory towards the acceptance of democracy and human rights on the part of mainstream Islamist groups and argues that such development ran the risk of being derailed by an ill-conceived war on terror that in the short term benefited those sectors of Islamism that always had violence at the centre of their political project.

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“…Following the various political reforms introduced by former president Liamine Zeroual (1994-99) -bringing a constitution (1996), legislative, local and regional elections (1997) -the rigging of previous elections notwithstanding, the country seemed to be equipped with working 'democratic' institutions. 2 According to the provisions of the new constitution, the life of a parliament was to be limited to five years. In March 2002, the new president Abdelaziz Bouteflika called for the second pluralist legislative elections to be held before June 2002.…”

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