By M. Daadaoui
This ebook examines the standards at the back of the survival and patience of monarchical authoritarianism in Morocco and argues that nation rituals of energy have an effect on the competition forces skill to problem the monarchy.
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70 Maddy-Weitzman’s analysis lacks any reference to cultural factors and, instead, focuses strictly on structural and personalistic variables. P r e va l e nc e of Au t hor i t a r i a n i s m 27 However, these personalistic characteristics that Maddy-Weitzman analyzes should be subject to a wider sociocultural analysis, for a charismatic, skillful leader functions in relation to the cultural values and constructs an ideology that could resonate within a particular society. It is the cultural framework on which charismatic and traditional rulers ground their authority.
This conception of legitimacy is a feature of the overall theory of legitimacy in political science. Modern Theory of Legitimacy: Rethinking Weber Weber’s conception of legitimacy provides, in many ways, the starting point for contemporary debate about legitimacy and power. ”77 For Weber, state actions were legitimate if the governed accepted the state’s authority and submitted themselves to it voluntarily. Weber’s conception of legitimacy implies a normative component that it is based on the beliefs and judgments of individuals.
Caids are assisted by “Sheikhs” and “Muqaddemin,” whose task is to serve at the complete Th e M a k h z e n a n d S t a t e For m a t ion 47 disposition of caids. 29 Finally, in the lands not formerly under the tutelage of the sultan, called bled es-siba, power resided in the traditional “jma’a” (an assembly of local notables), which govern autonomous tribes, not under the direct control of the sultan, as they are not subject to sultanistic taxes, but definitely under his dominion. Makhzen refers both to an administrative apparatus and to particular social and cultural symbols, as well as practices and rituals that have always buttressed functions of the state.