Morocco exemplifies a high-capacity nondemocratic regime with a long state history.

Evidence

Morocco has more than a thousand years of history as a Muslim power, including a period when it ran its own small empire. The territory endured French and Spanish occupations during the twentieth century, but became an independent monarchy in 1956. As of 1989, Hassan II, son of the dynasty’s founding king, was running a relatively high-capacity, nondemocratic regime. The government had long been engaged in war with rival claimants (the Polisario Front) to the former Spanish Sahara, now known in Morocco as its province of Western Sahara. During the year, the regime accepted a UN-promoted truce with the Polisario. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 389

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 389
• XREF: connects to: Morocco’s liberalization coexisted with continuing state licensing of civil society — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 508

Broader Connections

• Morocco’s liberalization coexisted with continuing state licensing of civil society #exemplifies (0.72) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 508