Dix ans de monarchie exécutive et citoyenne : élections, partis politiques et défiance démocratique

Desrues, Thierry; Kirhlani, Said

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“…Several studies have thoroughly traced the adoption and implementation of Morocco's subsequent forms of gender quotas, finding that the main actors pressuring for the adoption of a codified gender quota law in 2011 were women's organizations (Darhour and Dahlerup 2013;Sater 2012). They joined forces with the King Mohammed VI, who promoted the inclusion of women into the political system as part of an agenda oriented towards international standards of modernity and democraticness (Desrues and Kirhlani 2010). None of these studies elaborates more on the Moroccan youth quota, though.…”

Section: Morocco: the Co-opted Youth Quotamentioning

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The adoption of youth quotas after the Arab uprisings

Belschner

2018

Politics, Groups, and Identities

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The adoption of electoral quotas for politically under-represented groups has become a prominent policy worldwide. An increasing number of states have adopted youth quotas, which aim to foster the election of young members of parliament under 35 to 40 years of age. To date, youth quotas only occur in tandem with simultaneously or previously adopted gender quotas. Why do states adopt youth quotas? Are the driving actors similar as in the adoption of gender quotas? Using causal process tracing based on a qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles, parliamentary debates, and interviews, this article investigates the adoption of youth quotas in Tunisia and Morocco after the Arab uprisings in 2011. The findings suggest that, contrary to the respective gender quotas, youth quotas were not part of civil society movements' agendas, but top-down initiatives from actors from within the domestic political elites.

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Section: Morocco: the Co-opted Youth Quotamentioning

confidence: 99%

The adoption of youth quotas after the Arab uprisings

Belschner

2018

Politics, Groups, and Identities

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“…Several studies have thoroughly traced the adoption and implementation of Morocco's subsequent forms of gender quotas, finding that the main actors pressuring for the adoption of a codified gender quota law in 2011 were women's organizations Sater 2012). They joined forces with the King Mohammed VI, who promoted the inclusion of women into the political system as part of an agenda oriented towards international standards of modernity and democraticness (Desrues and Kirhlani 2010). None of these studies elaborates more on the Moroccan youth quota, though.…”

Section: Morocco: the Co-opted Youth Quotamentioning

confidence: 99%

Empowering Young Women? Gender and Youth Quotas in Tunisia

Belschner

2019

Double-Edged Politics on Women’s Rights in the MENA Region

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This cumulative PhD dissertation studies the political inclusion of young men and women in democratic and democratizing states. It compares three aspects of political inclusion on the macro, meso, and micro levels of analysis: quotas, parties, and elections. The articles in the dissertation ask where and why states adopt quotas for youth, how parties implement the regulations, and how young candidates' age impacts their electoral performance. With its focus on youth, the dissertation explores the under-representation of a group that has, so far, received little scholarly attention. While existing research has focused on describing and explaining cross-national patterns of political youth representation, this dissertation aims to unpack processes and factors leading to representational outcomes. It does so by focusing on the entry and inclusion of youth into politics, which, arguably, precede and condition their descriptive representation. The dissertation as a whole builds on and contributes to the literatures of gender & politics, political parties, and electoral studies. It is composed of five independent articles, of which two are published in peer-reviewed journals and an edited volume, and three are currently under review. The first article, "The adoption of youth quotas after the Arab uprisings", was published in Politics, Groups, and Identities and compares the actors and processes leading to the adoption of gender and youth quotas in Tunisia and Morocco (Belschner 2018). The second article, "Hierarchies of Representation: The Re-distributive Effects of Gender and Youth Quotas", co-authored with Marta Garcia de Paredes, is in the second round of R&R at Representation and explores the intersectional effects of paired gender and youth quotas cross-nationally and in three case-studies of Tunisia, Morocco, and Sweden. The third article, "Empowering Young Women? Gender and Youth Quotas in Tunisia", was published in Darhour and Dahlerup 2020 and investigates the backgrounds of young female MPs and their positions in the Tunisian parliament (Belschner 2020). The fourth article, "Electoral Engineering in New Democracies. Parties, Quotas, and Institutional Uncertainty" is currently under review. It focuses on Tunisian local elections and asks under what conditions parties are willing and able to comply with quotas for multiple groups. The fifth article, "Youth Advantage vs. Gender Penalty: Selecting and Electing Young Candidates" is under review as well and analyses the conditions for young candidates' electoral success in Irish local elections. Theoretically, methodically, and empirically, all articles stand on their own. To varying degrees, they all employ quantitative as well as qualitative data and while some are classical (comparative) case-studies, others take a cross-national perspective to address the above-mentioned research questions. Geographywise, the articles focus on North Africa, particularly Tunisia, and Western Europe, particularly Ireland. Tunisia is one of the few countries that has legislated yo...

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“…Furthermore, since the official entry of the former parties of the opposition into the government in the late 1990s, political parties have increasingly become synonymous with opportunism, which has greatly contributed to delegitimizing the elected segment of Morocco's political system, leading to low participation rates and a large number of blank votes at elections. 3 Several initiatives have also been implemented to include underrepresented social categories (such as women) in the political sphere, but their participation remains limited and depends greatly on quota measures (Desrues and Kirhlani, 2010).…”

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The micropolitics of reform: gender quota, grassroots associations and the renewal of local elites in Morocco

Berriane

2015

The Journal of North African Studies

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The aim of this article is to contribute to the unpacking of hybrid regimes such as Morocco, showing some of the micro-mechanisms and power dynamics that shape and organize them. To illustrate these processes, the article looks beyond approaches that dismiss the electoral process in authoritarian and hybrid regimes as a mere façade. Instead, attention is paid to the politics of the elections themselves. Through ethnographic material collected in suburban neighbourhoods of Casablanca before, during and after the electoral campaign of three female political candidates in Morocco's municipal and communal elections of 2009, two interconnected power relations are analysed: gender relations and representations, and the relationship between local associations and the partisan political sphere. This study shows that a number of recent reforms have contributed to the pluralization of the political sphere in Morocco, opening up new channels through which outsiders such as women and, more generally, individuals with little political experience and capital have been able to enter the political sphere. The article also sheds light, however, on the direct and indirect ways in which this process of inclusion goes hand in hand with the reproduction of norms, representations and control mechanisms that reinforce former power hierarchies.

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Dix ans de monarchie exécutive et citoyenne : élections, partis politiques et défiance démocratique

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

The adoption of youth quotas after the Arab uprisings

The adoption of youth quotas after the Arab uprisings

Empowering Young Women? Gender and Youth Quotas in Tunisia

The micropolitics of reform: gender quota, grassroots associations and the renewal of local elites in Morocco

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