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dc.contributor.authorDENNISON, James
dc.contributor.authorDRAEGE, Jonas Bergan
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-22T10:22:05Z
dc.date.available2021-01-22T10:22:05Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationThe journal of North African studies, 2021, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 756-780en
dc.identifier.issn1743-9345
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/69651
dc.descriptionFirst published online: 26 February 2020en
dc.description.abstractThis article uses new survey evidence from Tunisia, conducted shortly after the three first elections following the Arab Spring, to explain dynamics in electoral behaviour. We find that the strongest and most consistent predictors of vote choice were gender, religiosity and attitudes to the role of Islam in public life. Economic attitudes, other socio-demographics and clientelistic motivations were consistently less or not important factors. These findings support the notion of a paramount Islamist-Secular divide, which is distinct from the Western Left-Right divide, in the Arab World. We also find evidence that Tunisian voters underwent a learning process over the course of elections. Overall, we present evidence to suggest that the primacy of the Islamist-secular axis of political conflict is, in accordance with the evidence from other early divides in transitional democracies, elite-driven, and so is likely to decline in importance over time.en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.ispartofThe journal of North African studiesen
dc.titleThe dynamics of electoral politics after the Arab Spring : evidence from Tunisiaen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13629387.2020.1732216
dc.identifier.volume26en
dc.identifier.startpage756en
dc.identifier.endpage780en
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