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Islamists and the regime: Applying a new framework for analysis to the case of Family Code reforms in Morocco

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This paper develops a theoretical framework for analyzing the strategic interaction between Islamists – pragmatic and dogmatic – and the regime when Shari’a-based issues are negotiated. I advance the new notion that pragmatists might be responsive to the Islamist electorate. Within the framework I generate the hypothesis that, if the regime promotes substantive reforms and the Islamist electorate supports them, then the internal cohesiveness of Islamist parties is weakened. In the case of Family Code reforms in Morocco, empirical analysis confirms that Islamists' change of strategy in 2003 – from opposing to not opposing the reforms – was due to changed preferences within the electorate in favour of reform. This change in preferences was matched by deep divisions within the Islamists of the Parti de la Justice et du Développement and had dramatic repercussions upon the internal cohesiveness of the party.

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Party Politics

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Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications., 2013

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English

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1354-0688

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Volume 19 Nomor 3, 2013, p. 408-431

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Elections
Islamist moderation
Islamist parties' behaviour

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