In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 481-504
Concern for democratisation, central in the study of comparative poiltics over recent years, has tended to shift attention away from the African continent.1 North Africa, in particular, has been neglected in this literature, though it has witnessed important liberalising political changes–most notably with the removal from office of Tunisia's President-for-Life Habib Bourguiba, and the dramatic decline of the Frot de libération nationale (F.L.N.) in Algeria following political violence in October 1988.