For more than twenty years, politics in Morocco has been witnessing a change in the cycles of protests under the influence of the parameters linked to the economic liberalization and evolution of the processes of disenchantment with a conventional political culture. The frequent use of repertories of collective action has not failed to shake the political and social landscape to the point that the demobilization of an area is followed by uprisings in neighboring sites. The response of public authorities varies according to the intensity and objectives of the social uprisings. This research is to study the evolution, over time, of the links between repression, the index of consumer prices of basic foodstuffs, and social uprisings. It covers about twenty years from January 1997 to November 2018. In addition to the descriptive temporal evolution, the work applies autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) modeling to examine whether there are short- and long-term associations between the variables mentioned above.
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June 16 2020
Intermittent Breaks of Public Order in the Moroccan Political Context: An ARDL Approach to the Dynamics of Protest Mobilizations, 1997–2018
Ben Ahmed Hougua
Ben Ahmed Hougua
Public Law and Political Science, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco
Ben Ahmed Hougua is a Researcher and Professor in Public Law and Political Science at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco.
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Contemporary Arab Affairs (2020) 13 (2): 27–53.
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Ben Ahmed Hougua; Intermittent Breaks of Public Order in the Moroccan Political Context: An ARDL Approach to the Dynamics of Protest Mobilizations, 1997–2018. Contemporary Arab Affairs 16 June 2020; 13 (2): 27–53. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/caa.2020.13.2.27
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