La riforma della disciplina del voto nelle Primavere Arabe: tra cedimento e consolidamento del sistema

The aim of this dissertation is to provide an in-depth analysis of the electoral legislation reforms occurred in Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia during the 2011 uprisings. The main reason behind this choice is to estimates the right to vote regulation impact on the respective constitutional transitions. The author considers the electoral legislation lato sensu to be crucial in understanding the fall or persistence of both ante and post 2011 regimes. This work can be dived in a theoretical and empirical part, consisting of three chapters each. The first gives an overview of democratization theory from both a constitutional and political scientific perspective. The second provides an analysis of the vote-democracy binomial, only then to deal with electoral system stricto sensu technicalities. The third addresses the issue of the Islamic movements’ nature and more generally the relationship between Islamic traditional institutions, such as the ijma and the Khilafah, and democratic principles. The fourth analyses the Moroccan “prevented” transition, where King Muhammad VI political acumen had been a key factor for preserving the status quo. The fifth covers the Egyptian miscarried transition, culminated with the re-establishment of an authoritarian regime. The sixth offers an overview of the only successful democratization of the Arab spring: Tunisia. The dissertation concludes giving some final considerations.