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dc.contributor.authorLøvlie, Frode
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-04T08:18:11Z
dc.date.available2018-01-04T08:18:11Z
dc.date.issued2013-01-01
dc.identifieroai:www.cmi.no:4482
dc.identifier.citationin Government and Opposition vol. 48 no. 4 pp. 570-593
dc.identifier.issn1477-7053
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2474841
dc.description.abstractHamas, the most influential Islamist party in the occupied Palestinian territories, replaced its strategy of electoral boycott in 1996 with participation in 2006 – a change not explained in the literature. Assisted by party change theories, the article seeks to fill this knowledge gap. The article demonstrates that the move from boycott to participation largely can be attributed to a change of dominant coalition. In line with the theoretical assumptions, environmental challenges and shocks altered the power-balance within Hamas, robbing the coalition dominating at the time of the boycott of its power and allowing a new faction to obtain dominance. This new dominant faction saw political participation as a legitimate avenue to pursue Hamas’s cause, and its rise to power secured the change of strategy and participation in the 2006 elections.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relationGovernment and Opposition
dc.relation4
dc.relation.ispartofGovernment and Opposition
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGovernment and Opposition vol. 48 no. 4
dc.relation.urihttps://www.cmi.no/publications/4482-explaining-hamass-changing-electoral-strategy
dc.subjectHamas
dc.subjectIslamism
dc.subjectDemocratization
dc.subjectParty Change
dc.subjectElite Respondents
dc.subjectPalestine
dc.titleExplaining Hamas's Changing Electoral Strategy, 1996-2006
dc.typeJournal article
dc.typePeer reviewed
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/gov.2013.3


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