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636 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2011)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0636 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION Patrimonialism, Past and Present By MOUNIRA M. CHARRAD and JULIA ADAMS Keywords: patrimonial; bureaucracy; state; family; kinship; patriarchal; Weber On January 14, 2011, thousands of protest- ers gathered in the Avenue Bourguiba, the main artery of Tunisia's capital city, Tunis, to demand the ouster of an authoritarian president who had been in power for 23 years. Similar demonstrations swept across Tunisia, with many galvanizing small towns throughout the coun- try. Following Tunisia, protesters marched in the streets of Jordan, Algeria, and Yemen. On February 1 and again on February 4, 2011, hun- dreds of thousands of Egyptians flooded Tahrir (Liberation) Square in Cairo and other cities to demand the departure of a president who had been in power for 30 years. In Tunisia and Egypt, the popular uprisings sought to bring about a new political order and to end the influ- ence of rulers' families in politics, the economy, and social life. They also explicitly targeted any hereditary transfer of power that would have codified, in disguise, a reversion to absolutist patrimonial monarchy. Dubbed the Jasmine Revolution, the Tunisian events have been compared with the Velvet NOTE: At Yale University, we wish to thank the Center for Comparative Research; the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies; the Office of the Provost; and Pam Colesworthy, Jerri Cummings, and Taly Noam, who has been an extraordi- nary source of support. At the University of Texas- Austin, thanks are due to the Office of the Dean, College of Liberal Arts; Michael Brenner, Government Department; Nicolette Manglos, Department of Sociology; and E. J. Sanders, Department of Religious Studies. We owe Emily Wood at AAPSS special acknowl- edgment for her organizational finesse. Finally, we dedicate this volume to the late Phyllis Kaniss, whose vision and grace contributed so much to the Academy and The Annals. DOI: 10.1177/0002716211402286 ANNALS, AAPSS, 636, July 2011 6