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Morocco's reaction to the Arab Spring sets it aside from other countries in the region in terms of how political elites adapted to the demands for democratic change. In the framework of a constitutional reform, the right to petition has been granted at the constitutional level, supposedly aiming at fostering citizens' engagement in political processes through the creation of new avenues for institutional participation. This article discusses the effect of institutional participatory spaces on the process of making rights claims. Grounded in two case studies and continuous observations in the field for over one year and a half, the article shows that citizens' engagement in these spaces reflects multiple logics and goals. Recognizing the important influence of the institutional design on the seizure of the right to petition, the findings highlight that seizing these spaces may also aim at achieving outcomes that go beyond the initial scope of the participatory space. The article argues that a better comprehension of the effect of the reconfiguration of citizens' participation in the policy process in Morocco could be achieved by shifting the focus to the performances of citizenship itself.

Petition letter [from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] asking the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to protest in United States Supreme Court against the wrongful imprisonment of "colored citizens" employed on trade ships arriving at the ports of slaveholding states.

This book deals with one of the most pervasive ways by which people have addressed authority throughout history: petitioning. The book explores traditional practices and institutions, as well as the transformation of petitions as vehicles of popular politics. The ability or the right to petition was also a crucial element for the development and operation of early modern empires, playing a major role on the negotiated patterns of the Atlantic World. This book shows how petitions were used in Europe, America and Africa, by the governors and the governed, by the rich and the poor, by the colonists and the colonised and by the liberal and the reactionary groups. Broken down into three thematic parts, encompassing both in chronological and geographical scope, the book deepens our understanding of petitioning and its relation with ideas of consent and subjecthood, nationality and citizenship, political participation and democracy. This book provides a rare comparative platform for the study of a subject that has been receiving growing interest. Miguel Dantas da Cruz is an assistant researcher at Instituto de Ciencias Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

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