The results of the 10 May 2012 Algerian legislative elections ran against conventional wisdom, and at least two points will certainly provoke much commentary. First, despite widespread disgruntlement, Algerian voter turnout proved to be significantly higher than predicted by most observers. 42.9..
Robert P. Parks
Robert P. Parks is the Director of the Centre d’Études Maghrébines en Algérie. He received his Ph.D. in political science in May 2011, which was based on several years of qualitative research in Algeria and Tunisia. His research has been published in The Middle East Journal, The Arab Reform Bulletin, and he contributed to The Politics of Islamic Finance (2004). He is co-editor of a forthcoming volume on local-national relations in the Maghreb and is currently writing book on state building processes in Algeria and Tunisia, examined from the bottom-up. He is also a co-editor of Jadaliyya`s Maghreb Page.