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dc.contributor.advisorBritton, Hannah E
dc.contributor.advisorButtorff, Gail J
dc.contributor.authorBadran, Sammy Z
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-06T20:01:15Z
dc.date.available2019-09-06T20:01:15Z
dc.date.issued2018-08-31
dc.date.submitted2018
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16039
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/29556
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation aims to understand why protests lessen when they do by investigating how and why social movements demobilize. I do this by questioning the causal link between consistent state polices (concessions or repression) and social movement demobilization. My interviews with the February 20 Movement, the main organizer of mass protests in Morocco during the Arab Spring, reveals how ideological differences between leftist and Islamist participants led to the group’s eventual halt of protests. During my fieldwork, I conducted 46 semi-structured elite interviews with civil society activists, political party leaders, MPs, and independent activists throughout Morocco. My interviews demonstrate that the February 20 Movement was initially united, but that this incrementally changed following the King’s mixed-policy of concessions and repression. The King’s concessionary policies convinced society that demands were being met and therefore led to the perception that the February 20 Movement was no longer needed, while repression highlighted internal divides. The King’s calculated mixed-policy approach killed this social movement by delegitimizing it, in addition to internally fracturing it. This dissertation will show how the February 20 Movement became a divided movement that could not uniformly respond to a series of concessions and repression.
dc.format.extent164 pages
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Kansas
dc.rightsCopyright held by the author.
dc.subjectPolitical science
dc.subjectArab Spring
dc.subjectDemobilization
dc.subjectFebruary 20 Movement
dc.subjectMorocco
dc.subjectProtests
dc.subjectSocial Movements
dc.titleDemobilization in Morocco: The Case of The February 20 Movement
dc.typeDissertation
dc.contributor.cmtememberReich, Gary
dc.contributor.cmtememberAvdan, Nazli
dc.contributor.cmtememberDoan, Alesha
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplinePolitical Science
dc.thesis.degreeLevelPh.D.
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