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Socio-economic voter profile and motives for Islamist support in Morocco
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Abstract Based on an original dataset of merged electoral and census data, this article is a study of electoral support for the Islamist Party in Morocco in the 2002 and 2007 elections. It differentiates between the clientelistic, grievance and horizontal network type of supporters. We disentangle these prof... view more
Based on an original dataset of merged electoral and census data, this article is a study of electoral support for the Islamist Party in Morocco in the 2002 and 2007 elections. It differentiates between the clientelistic, grievance and horizontal network type of supporters. We disentangle these profiles empirically on the basis of the role of education, wealth and exclusion for Islamist votes. We find no evidence of the clientelistic profile, but a shift from grievance in 2002 to a horizontal network profile in 2007. World Values Survey individual level data are used as a robustness check, yielding similar results. Qualitative evidence on a changing mobilization pattern of the party between 2002 and 2007 supports our conclusions.... view less
Keywords
Middle East; North Africa; Morocco; election; Islamist party; political support; political change; party supporter; opposition
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
Page/Pages
p. 116-133
Journal
Party Politics, 20 (2014) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068811436043
ISSN
1460-3683
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
With the permission of the rights owner, this publication is under open access due to a (DFG-/German Research Foundation-funded) national or Alliance license.