Roots of Elite Cooperation: Coalition Building under Authoritarianism and Democratic Transitions in the MENA

Name: Roots of Elite Cooperation: Coalition Building under Authoritarianism and Democratic Transitions in the MENA
Start: 2020-04-30T12:00:00-0400
End: 2020-04-30T13:30:00-0400

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A webinar with Tahir Kilavuz, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Middle East Initiative and PhD in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame.

Moderated by MEI Faculty Chair, Professor Tarek Masoud.

This seminar will be conducted via Zoom Webinar. Please register in advance:

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Date: Thu, Apr 30, 2020 Time: 12:00pm - 01:30pm

A protestor holds a placard reading "For a transition period" as he confronts a police vehicle, during a demonstration, in Bejaia, eastern Algeria, Saturday, April 5, 2014. Demonstrators call for a boycott of the upcoming presidential election as twelve candidates have registered for Algeria’s April 17 presidential election including President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 77, who is running for a fourth term.

The study shows the roots of elite cooperation and the impact on transition outcomes during the transition attempts in the MENA. It argues that past coalition building experience among opposition actors produce an organizational capital, trust and a shared vision that help elites to credibly signal each other to commit to cooperation in times of transitions. The study provides evidence for the arguments from fieldwork on the cases of Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia and experiments from two original surveys in Tunisia and Algeria.

Roots of Elite Cooperation: Coalition Building under Authoritarianism and Democratic Transitions in the MENA

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