The Making of the Tunisian Revolution

This project has been completed. It explored the political economy model of a leaderless revolution, the breakdown of the social contract, the role of the divided business class (post-1990s, alienation of the business class by the Trabelsi-Ben Ali business clan), and the role of Political Islam and the new middle class in the Tunisian revolution.

The Making of the Tunisian Revolution

Fadhel Kaboub

Associate Professor of Economics, Denison University