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Algeria: Democratic transition case study

22/09/2008 By Kristina Kausch, Richard Youngs

Within the context of CDDRL’s project on democratic transitions, this paper explores the causes for the failure of Algeria to democratise in the 1990s.

Adhering to the project’s common case study framework, the paper outlines the impact of long term structural variables before moving on to examine the domestic and then external variables that acted around the moment of potential transition in 1991-1992.

In conclusion, the paper highlights the mutual interaction of domestic and external variables when it comes to explaining the ‘failed transition’ outcome in the case of Algeria.

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Keywords

Algeria North Africa

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Bio author: Kristina Kausch

Kristina Kausch is a Researcher at FRIDE's Democratisation Programme and focuses on European policies of democracy promotion in the European neighbourhood. She holds an MA in International Relations from the University of Göttingen. Prior to joining FRIDE in 2004, she worked for several years on programmes of good governance and democratisation for the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), and at the Bertelsmann Foundation.

Bio author: Richard Youngs

Richard Youngs is Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Democratisation programme at FRIDE. He also lectures at the University of Warwick in the UK. He studied at Cambridge (BA Hons) and Warwick (MA, PhD) universities.