ALGERIA-Clientélisme et Patronage dans l'Algérie Contemporaine Clientelism and Patronage in Contemporary Algeria

After Algeria's single-party state broke down in 1988 outside observers were astonished to see "traditional" tribes and religious orders popping out of the rotted political woodwork. [...]in 1990 the beleaguered presidency had attempted to promote Algeria's religious orders and t...

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Published in:The Middle East journal 2016-12, Vol.70 (1), p.152-153
Main Author: Henry, Clement M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algeria
Clientelism
Elections
Patronage
Politics
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Summary:After Algeria's single-party state broke down in 1988 outside observers were astonished to see "traditional" tribes and religious orders popping out of the rotted political woodwork. [...]in 1990 the beleaguered presidency had attempted to promote Algeria's religious orders and their zawaya as counterforces to the political Islamism of the Islamic Salvation Front (al-Jabha al-Islamiyya li-l-Inqadh, referred to in French as Front Islamique du Salut or FIS), and by 2003 the National Association of Zawaya counted 8,900 lodges, far more than a French census in 1897 of 349.
ISSN:0026-3141