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This chapter compares the mobilization of Ennahda and the HMS between 1999 and 2010 and examines the contrasting ways in which Ennahda’s organizational and framing dynamics made it a more moderate and modernized opposition force, whereas the HMS continued along the path of regime co-optation, aggravating party fragmentation, and triggering frame inconsistency. It argues that Ennahda’s political flexibility not only allowed it to collaborate with secular opposition parties in Tunisia, but to reach out to people from different social groups. By comparison, Soltani’s engagement in the Presidential Alliance not only triggered drastic internal debates which led to party splintering, but caused frame inconsistency which eventually discredited the HMS.

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Zhang, C. (2020). Co-optation or Resistance?. In: Islamist Party Mobilization. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9487-4_6

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