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Article: Political parties in postwar Lebanon: Parties in search of partisans
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- The Middle East Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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CopyrightCopyright Middle East Institute Autumn 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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This article examines the performance of political parties in postwar Lebanon against the benchmark of parties in the prewar period. Parties turned into militias during Lebanon's fifteen-year war and reverted to their party status with the ending of the war in 1990. In postwar Lebanon parties face several problems partly generated by their inability to recover from wartime practices and partly because of the built-in limitations in the political system inhibiting competitive politics. Some parties are banned; others have access to political and financial rewards and thus have a stake in preserving the status quo. In this sense, parties are performing functions similar to those performed by ...
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