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Parliamentary elections in Jordan, January 2013
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Abstract Jordan held its first elections since the beginning of the "Arab Spring" on January 23, 2013. Against the backdrop of region-wide mobilization in the Middle East, which led to the ousting of authoritarian President Mubarak in Egypt in 2011 and the civil war in Syria, the elections to the 17th lower ... view more
Jordan held its first elections since the beginning of the "Arab Spring" on January 23, 2013. Against the backdrop of region-wide mobilization in the Middle East, which led to the ousting of authoritarian President Mubarak in Egypt in 2011 and the civil war in Syria, the elections to the 17th lower house of parliament in Jordan were widely considered a political litmus test for King Abdullah II. Jordan experienced its own opposition mobilization throughout 2011 and 2012, with unprecedented criticism of the monarch. At the same time, the general political mood in Jordan has still overwhelmingly been one of gradual reform, not revolution. Therefore, the parliamentary elections of January 2013 must be seen in the context of an increasingly politicized and frustrated Jordanian public on the one hand, and a rather successful royal political survival strategy on the other.... view less
Keywords
Jordan; parliamentary election; monarchy; electoral system; party system; public opinion; Arab countries; Middle East
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
Page/Pages
p. 376-379
Journal
Electoral Studies, 34 (2014)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2013.08.012
ISSN
0261-3794
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0