POLI 395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Corporatism, Zakat, Iranian Revolution
14 Sep 2017
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The role of the military: they didn"t shoot at the protesters. Economic: privatization of companies; crony, ruling party benefiting from it. Divisions within the ruling party; starts to lose the base of support (rcd). They joined the protests by the labour union. Unification of opposition; they were able and willing to compromise. The seculars: the threat aren"t the islamists, but ben ali. Islamists de-radicalised in order to have a dialogue with them. Process of de-radicalization also shaped by the algerian war; if there is no dialogue, there may be a civil war. Islamists decided to take position on religious law and there isn"t a threat on the issue of women"s rights. Timing was also important: it started happening before the revolution in the 2000s. Role of the ugtt (union); main umbrella union in tunisia. Although controlled by the regime, they managed to break away from ben ali because of neoliberal policies.
