Presidential and parliamentary electoral policies in Tunisia (1989-2009)

These paper aims to enlighten the role displayed by the Tunisian presidential and parliamentary elections in the process of political liberalization on which Ben Ali embarked the country two decades ago. With this aim, the study analyses the electoral politics implemented in the country between 1989 and 2009, by focusing five analytical units. These are the following: I) the political strategies that inspires these electoral politics; II) the normative elements that support and materialize them; III) their impact in the political behaviour of the opposition parties; IV) their effect on the electoral results; and V) their transcendence over the development of the structure of political contestation.