This is an invaluable and meticulously researched contribution to our understanding of the workings of ruling parties in authoritarian regimes, and, more specifically, the political machinery of the Ben Ali period of Tunisian history.
Anne Wolf is a Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, where she researches Authoritarian Politics, with a specific focus on the Middle East and North Africa. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of North African Studies and a senior researcher at the Project on Middle East Democracy. Her book Political Islam in Tunisia: The History of Ennahda (OUP 2017) won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award.