Economic Reform and Tunisia’s Hegemonic Party: The End of the Administrative Elite
Author(s)
King, Stephen J.
Abstract
The pressures of economic liberalization in Tunisia since 1986 have undermined the social contracts established in the 1950’s by the hegemonic populist Neo-Destour Party with labor, the rural poor, and other social groups, fostering a new alliance of the government with the powerful capitalist sector and silencing the Islamist opposition movement with well-executed repression.
