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5 - The Illiberal Paradox of Autocratic Policymaking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2023

Katharina Natter
Affiliation:
Universiteit Leiden
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Chapter 5 dissects power dynamics among actors involved in immigration policy in Morocco before and after the 2013 reform: the monarchy and administration, international, national, and migrant civil society organizations, as well as international organizations, legal actors, and the private sector. I demonstrate that immigration policy liberalization not only emerged out of Morocco’s autocratic political structures – a dynamic I call the illiberal paradox – but also consolidated them. In particular, I show that the monarchy mobilized the expansion of migrants’ rights, as well as its relations with the administration and an expanding civil society to portray the king as a ‘liberal’ monarch. In this process, legal actors and elected politicians have only played a subordinate role. However, these ‘regime effects’ in domestic politics did not absorb resistances and diverging views within the administration, with actors keeping their room for manoeuvre regarding agenda-setting and policy implementation.

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The Politics of Immigration Beyond Liberal States
Morocco and Tunisia in Comparative Perspective
, pp. 109 - 139
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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