The 2007 Legislative Elections in Algeria: Political Reckonings

T-Test for Terrorism: Did the Introduction of Proportional Representation Reduce the Terrorist Threat? A Time-Series Case Study of Algeria and Northern Ireland

“…To be sure, Algeria is not a democracy (the country was categorized as 'Non-Free' by Freedom House throughout the period under analysis 63 ), but the presence of political parties that were previously considered to be affiliated to radical Islamic organisations (such as Mouvement de la société pour la paix, which is affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood) seems to have added legitimacy to decisions and have arguable given hitherto disenfranchised groups a voice, if not a share of executive power. However, the fact that some of the Islamist political parties urged a boycott after 2007 64 (and that terrorist attacks increased after this date) may suggest there limits to the explanatory value of the hypothesis.…”