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Dr Rory McCarthy's Outputs (16)

Explaining the Distinction Between Religious and Political Activism in Islamism: Evidence from the Tunisian Case (2024)
Journal Article
Merone, F., & McCarthy, R. (2024). Explaining the Distinction Between Religious and Political Activism in Islamism: Evidence from the Tunisian Case. Politics and Religion, 17(2), 296 - 314. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755048324000087

Tunisia’s Islamist movement Ennahda has announced a separation of political and religious work, apparently reinforcing a ‘post-Islamist’ argument that Islamic parties have left behind religious mobilization. However, the boundary between religious an... Read More about Explaining the Distinction Between Religious and Political Activism in Islamism: Evidence from the Tunisian Case.

Islamism, party change, and strategic conciliation: Evidence from Tunisia (2023)
Journal Article
McCarthy, R. (2024). Islamism, party change, and strategic conciliation: Evidence from Tunisia. Party Politics, 30(6), 1064-1074. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688231192393

What happens to an Islamist party after moderating its behaviour and ideology? Existing work on Islamist parties has elaborated the varied causes of moderation. Yet, the mixed findings do not capture the full range of Islamist dynamics. This article... Read More about Islamism, party change, and strategic conciliation: Evidence from Tunisia.

Autonomous Activism and Accountability in a Democratic Transition: Evidence from Tunisia (2023)
Journal Article
McCarthy, R. (2023). Autonomous Activism and Accountability in a Democratic Transition: Evidence from Tunisia. Democratization, 30(5), 875-893. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2023.2192931

How do citizens in the Arab world hold their governments to account between elections? Diagonal accountability mechanisms in the literature show how citizens can constrain executive power by imposing reputational costs, by using legal action, or thro... Read More about Autonomous Activism and Accountability in a Democratic Transition: Evidence from Tunisia.

Hizb al-Tahrir Tunisia (2023)
Book Chapter
McCarthy, R. (2023). Hizb al-Tahrir Tunisia. In K. Fleet, G. Kramer, D. Matringe, J. Nawas, & D. Stewart (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). (3rd ed.). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_com_45918

Ḥizb al-Taḥrīr Tunisia is an Islamist group which emerged in the late 1970s as a branch of the international Ḥizb al-Taḥrīr movement, which had been established in Jerusalem in 1952 by the Palestinian Islamic scholar Taqi al-Dīn al-Nabhānī (1909-77).... Read More about Hizb al-Tahrir Tunisia.

Transgressive Protest after a Democratic Transition: The Kamour Campaign in Tunisia (2021)
Journal Article
McCarthy, R. (2022). Transgressive Protest after a Democratic Transition: The Kamour Campaign in Tunisia. Social Movement Studies, 21(6), 798-815. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2021.1967128

A democratic transition is likely to bring significant changes to the character of contentious politics. Scholars argue protest is likely to become normalized and more frequent because of new opportunities, but less radical because it is channelled b... Read More about Transgressive Protest after a Democratic Transition: The Kamour Campaign in Tunisia.

The Politics of Consensus: Al-Nahda and the stability of the Tunisian transition (2019)
Journal Article
McCarthy, R. (2019). The Politics of Consensus: Al-Nahda and the stability of the Tunisian transition. Middle Eastern Studies, 55(2), 261-275. https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2018.1538969

Tunisia&s transition away from authoritarianism has been shaped by a politics of consensus, which has brought together representatives of the former regime with their historic adversary, the Islamist movement al-Nahda. This article argues that consen... Read More about The Politics of Consensus: Al-Nahda and the stability of the Tunisian transition.

When Islamists Lose: The Politicization of Tunisia's Ennahda Movement (2018)
Journal Article
McCarthy, R. (2018). When Islamists Lose: The Politicization of Tunisia's Ennahda Movement. The Middle East journal, 72(3), 365-384. https://doi.org/10.3751/72.3.11

This article is a case study of how Tunisia's Islamist party, the Ennahda Movement, responded to new political opportunities that opened up after the 2011 Arab uprisings. It argues that Ennahda chose to make a hard-to-reverse commitment to politiciza... Read More about When Islamists Lose: The Politicization of Tunisia's Ennahda Movement.

Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring: Triumphs and Disasters (2016)
Book
Roberts, A., Willis, M. J., McCarthy, R., & Garton Ash, T. (Eds.). (2016). Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring: Triumphs and Disasters. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198749028.001.0001

This book provides a vivid account and analysis of the role of non-violent resistance in the ‘Arab Spring’—the chain of events in the Middle East and North Africa that erupted in December 2010, leading to the fall of governments from Tunisia to Yemen... Read More about Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring: Triumphs and Disasters.

Protecting the Sacred: Tunisia's Islamist Movement Ennahdha and the Challenge of Free Speech (2015)
Journal Article
McCarthy, R. (2015). Protecting the Sacred: Tunisia's Islamist Movement Ennahdha and the Challenge of Free Speech. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 42(4), 447-464. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2015.1005055

Since the 2011 uprising, Tunisia's Islamist movement Ennahdha has proposed a political project based on reclaiming the nation's Arab-Islamic identity. At the heart of this is the issue of ‘protection of the sacred’, which seeks to define limits to fr... Read More about Protecting the Sacred: Tunisia's Islamist Movement Ennahdha and the Challenge of Free Speech.

Re-thinking Secularism in Post-Independence Tunisia (2014)
Journal Article
McCarthy, R. (2014). Re-thinking Secularism in Post-Independence Tunisia. The Journal of North African Studies, 19(5), 733-750. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2014.917585

The victory of a Tunisian Islamist party in the elections of October 2011 seems a paradox for a country long considered the most secular in the Arab world and raises questions about the nature and limited reach of secularist policies imposed by the s... Read More about Re-thinking Secularism in Post-Independence Tunisia.