Tunisia’s uprising produced political shifts but no new economic order

Evidence

Tunisia, the country that had started it all, struggled through the difficult process of drafting a new constitution. Preexisting parties—the Islamists and the leftists and the liberals—tried to hammer out a document that would bring the country into the democratic world, reflect the interests of the people, and deliver on the spirit of January 2011. But Maya Jribi, the secretary general of the Parti Démocrate Progressiste (PDP), noted that the uprising had not provided the country with a concrete political direction. They were using the institutions that were there before, rather than building truly new ones. There was no major change to economic conditions in the country. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 309

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A mass uprising can deliver less than a true revolution — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 310; Nonviolent revolutions often fail to build post-regime governance

Broader Connections

• A mass uprising can deliver less than a true revolution #corroborates (0.82) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 310
• Nonviolent revolutions often fail to build post-regime governance #corroborates (0.78)