Podcast appearances and mentions of adria lawrence

Adria Lawrence speaks about about the recent elections in Morocco on this week's POMEPS podcast with Marc Lynch, "The outcome isn't really surprising, though very few people expected a big surprise. The PJD [Party of Justice and Development, a moderate Islamist-oriented party] took more seats than its rival." Adria Lawrence is Associate Professor of Political Science and a research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. Her research reflects her expertise in the politics of the Middle East and North Africa. "It was probably quite expected for the PJD to continue its prior mandate for the last five years with a majority of seats in the parliament," Lawrence says. "Secularists were worried about what an Islamist party would do, but the PJD hasn't pushed for that much of an Islamist agenda." In fact, Lawrence says, the PJD has not accomplished a lot in the last five years. They "haven't managed to make major steps forward on their major platforms, like corruption. They've had some pretty serious problems to face: there's been a drought in Morocco, there's an unemployment crisis. They've had a lot of obstacles, and I think they've done what they could in the parliament." Still, voter turnout was low. "It would appear that turnout was worse in this election than in 2011— still less than half of eligible voters."

A lecture by Adria Lawrence, Depts. of Political Science and International and Area Studies, Yale University

The George Washington University’s Marc Lynch, director of the Project on Middle East Political Science, speaks with Adria Lawrence, assistant professor of political science at Yale University and research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, where she studies conflict and collective action. Lynch and Lawrence discuss Moroccan politics and youth protest movements as well as her new book Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire. - See more at: http://pomeps.org/2013/10/pomeps-conversation-27-with-adria-lawrence-10252013/#sthash.bJck2wzK.dpuf

The George Washington University’s Marc Lynch, director of the Project on Middle East Political Science, speaks with Adria Lawrence, assistant professor of political science at Yale University and research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, where she studies conflict and collective action. Lynch and Lawrence discuss Moroccan politics and youth protest movements as well as her new book Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire.