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Elites and Revolution: Political Relegation and Reintegration of Former Senior Government Officials in Tunisia
Eliten und Revolution: Politische Relegation und Reintegration von ehemaligen hohen Regierungsbeamten in Tunesien
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Abstract What happens to the state elite of an authoritarian regime after its collapse? This article proposes an answer by examining the Tunisian case after the fall of Ben Ali’s regime in 2011. Based on a corpus of in-depth interviews with sixty or so ex-politicians or civil servants, the article starts by ... mehr
What happens to the state elite of an authoritarian regime after its collapse? This article proposes an answer by examining the Tunisian case after the fall of Ben Ali’s regime in 2011. Based on a corpus of in-depth interviews with sixty or so ex-politicians or civil servants, the article starts by describing the collapse of the regime in terms of the experience and perceptions of some of those who had served it. This is not presented as a series of institutional and political events linked up in a homogenous and unidirectional process, but rather as a variety of individual experiences, each unique. The fall of the regime thereby emerges as a concrete experience of political relegation, documented in precise detail by the accounts given of it. Analyzing this experience provides a way of testing several hypotheses regarding the post-revolutionary careers of former senior officials, stressing just how complex and diverse the paths are for reintegrating the political class.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
beruflicher Abstieg; Revolution; politischer Wandel; politische Elite; Transition; Reintegration; Karriere; Tunesien; Demokratisierung; Nordafrika; arabische Länder
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
political parties; Arab Spring
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Seitenangabe
S. 98-112
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 43 (2018) 4
Heftthema
Challenged Elites - Elites as Challengers: The Impact of Civil Activism, Populism and the Economic Crisis on Elite Structures, Orientations and Agendas
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)