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The Rise and Fall of the Corporatist State in Tunisia, 1956–1986

In: Economic and Political change in Tunisia

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  • Emma C. Murphy

    (University of Durham)

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Modern Tunisia is often regarded as having been the creation of one man, its charismatic first President, Habib Bourguiba. Having emerged as a national leader through the struggle for independence from French colonial rule, Bourguiba was the driving force behind the creation of a corporatist political system dominated by his own Neo-Destour party. After a brief experiment with socialism, and despite maintaining a bureaucratic and interventionist state, Bourguiba led Tunisia on a path of gradual and limited economic liberalization. The accompanying demands for a corresponding political liberalization could not be accommodated within his own vision of the relative roles of state and society, and his final years in power were characterized by political crisis. Ultimately, his own preference for personalized rule, combined with the pressures of economic development and a burgeoning civil society, had forced him to choose between political pluralism and single-party authoritarianism.

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  • Emma C. Murphy, 1999. "The Rise and Fall of the Corporatist State in Tunisia, 1956–1986," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Economic and Political change in Tunisia, chapter 2, pages 42-79, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-98358-4_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9780333983584_3
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