Sinn Féin’s Tortuous Road to Power by Agnès Maillot

“…In order to secure such a position, it had to transform itself, abandoning deep-seated principles such as abstentionism and severe the link between political and military actions. …”
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Regarder au-delà des élections : l’historicité complexe de la participation politique dans la Libye contemporaine by Chiara Loschi, Chiara Pagano

“…In these readings, abstentionism or the practice of delegitimising the elected authorities has been attributed to the lack of democratic political culture and knowledge of institutional instruments on the part of Libyan citizens, both individually and collectively, after some 42 years of dictatorship.Our contribution argues that it is necessary to move away from these normative conceptions of politics in general in order to formulate different readings on and discuss alternative forms of deliberative governance. …”
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