Islamist Party Mobilization
Tunisia’s Ennahda and Algeria’s HMS Compared, 1989–2014
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This chapter presents the book’s theoretical model for analyzing Islamist parties’ mobilization, which is the supply-and-demand framework, based on a combination of three theories—electoral authoritarianism th...
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This chapter tests the logic of the demand-and-supply theory through in-depth comparison of the MTI/Ennahda’s and HMS’ first trials of electoral mobilization in 1989. It argues that although both the MTI/Ennah...
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This chapter compares the mobilization of Ennahda and the HMS between 1999 and 2010 and examines the contrasting ways in which Ennahda’s organizational and framing dynamics made it a more moderate and moderniz...
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This chapter summarizes the goals and outcomes of the research before elaborating on the explanatory power of the findings. It argues that the study’s demand-and-supply framework can enable better understandin...
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This chapter explains the aim of this book, which is to explore how Islamist parties mobilize debates, discourses, and environments in electoral authoritarian systems. Specifically, the research analyzes how I...
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This chapter analyzes the political context, creation, structures, and ideas of the predecessors of Tunisia’s Ennahda and Algeria’s HMS, namely JI/ MTI and JM. It finds that whereas both JI/MTI and JM adopted ...
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This chapter compares the mobilization of Ennahda and the HMS in 1992–1998 and examines how the two parties framed new opportunities and adjusted their organizational structure and framing process. It argues t...
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This chapter tests the logic of the demand-and-supply theory through comparison of the mobilization of Ennahda and HMS in the early 2010s. It argues that although both Tunisia and Algeria faced protests, and b...
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What are the factors that facilitate or hinder Islamic political parties’ performance in elections in the Middle East and North Africa? Why did Algerian Islamists as an electoral force declined steadily over t...