Democratization without democracy: Political openings and closures in modern Morocco

Middle East Report

Volumn 31, Issue 218, 2001, Pages 22-25

  Sweet, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRATIZATION; LEADERSHIP; LIBERALIZATION; POLITICAL CHANGE;

MOROCCO;

EID: 0035045064     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1559306     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. The term pseudodemocracy first appeared in Larry Diamond, Juan J. Linz and Seymour Martin Lipset, "Introduction: What Makes for Democracy," in Politics in Developing Countries Comparing Experiences with Democracy, Diamond et al., eds. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1995), pp. 8-9.
2. See also Diamond, "Is the Third Wave Over?" Journal of Democracy 7 (1996)
3. and Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
4. King Hassan II referred to the monarchy as such in his Throne Day speech of March 3, 1992.
5. See Henry Munson, Jr., "International Election Monitoring: A Critique Based on One Monitor's Experience in Morocco," Middle East Report 209 (Winter 1998).
6. Agriculture accounts for about 20 percent of Morocco's gross domestic product.
7. For example, US Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Morocco Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1997 (Washington, DC: Department of State, 1998).
8. Fouad Nejjar, "Réformes et assainissement sur fond de consensus," La Vie Economique 3899 (January 3-9, 1997).
9. The banned issue of Le Journal, including the text of Basri's letter, is currently available in the Maghreb/Moyen-Orient section of the Reporters Without Borders website: http:// www.press-freedom.org/home.html.
10. The article in question from Demain may be found on the Courrier International website: http://www.courrierinternational.com/numeros/528/ 052804901.asp?TYPE=archives.