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2016 elections in Jordan, identity politics and Palestinian-Jordanian cleavage
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Due to the so‐called East Bank‐West Bank cleavage that followed by the influx of Palestinian migrants to Jordan, the country has also come to epitomize a divided society. Within this context, this paper aims to analyze the ongoing prospects for democratization in Jordan through an examination of four persistent debates shaping its electoral pluralism: those over social/identity division, electoral law as a regime‐survival mechanism, the role of the Ikhwan and the IAF's electoral boycotts, and electoral apathy.
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The impact of the Arab upheavals/revolts on restructuring the process of political reform — as well as opposition in the kingdom in the post‐2011 era - with reference to the changing dynamics of Islamist opposition.
Nur Köprülü
Near East University
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This page is a summary of: Electoral Pluralism, Social Division and the 2016 Parliamentary Elections in Jordan, Digest of Middle East Studies, September 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/dome.12115.
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