Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1-2022
Abstract
After a decade as the stand-out democracy of the Middle East, Tunisia took an anti-democratic turn in July 2021 with President Kaïs Saïed’s self-coup. Using a survey fielded in the weeks after these reforms, this article documents the substantial support for liberal institutions and civil rights in Tunisia. Democracy itself, on the other hand, is not so strongly supported. The study thus identifies potential for democratic backsliding in Tunisia through the strategic implementation liberal but anti-democratic actions. Other would-be authoritarians could follow Saïed’s model of strategic regression to autocratize their regimes.
Recommended Citation
Hannah M. Ridge (2022) Dismantling new democracies: the case of Tunisia, Democratization, 29:8, 1539-1556, https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2022.2093346
Peer Reviewed
1
Copyright
Taylor & Francis
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Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript version of an article accepted for publication in Democratization, volume 29, issue 8, in 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2022.2093346. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.