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This book sketches the discourse about a new constitution in Libya since 2011. Applying a discourse analytical approach, the author identifies societal cleavages that have come to the fore in Libya’s transitional period. The debate has focused on democracy, federalism, decentralisation and localisation, the role of religion, women in politics as well as ethnic minorities. The strategies followed to ensure representation in the constitutional process have included civil disobedience, affirmative action and force. The effects of raising demands in these ways have been changes in the constitutional process and institutional design of Libya’s interim political institutions rather than promises thatparticular demands as to the content of the constitution would be met. The general prevention of a public discourse and competition along societal cleavages under Gaddafi’s totalitarian ideology has resulted in an all-out resurgence of splits along ethnic, regional and other lines.The work was awarded the Christoph Schumann Memorial Prize of the University of Erlangen.
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Book Title: Libya in the Arab Spring
Book Subtitle: The Constitutional Discourse since the Fall of Gaddafi
Authors: Nadine Schnelzer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11382-7
Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-11381-0Published: 17 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-11382-7Published: 10 November 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 105
Topics: Area Studies, Knowledge - Discourse, Sociology of Culture