| Abstract: | Morocco remains a dual land, its people balanced between traditional and modern values. Moroccan society has struggled since 1956 to formulate an effective system of participetory democracy, but progress is hampered by the double stress of social conflicts and the enduring factionalism of Berber Islam. In June 1965 Hassan II declared a 'state of exception' dissolved the Moroccan Assembly, suspended the Constitution and assumed full executive as well as legislative powers, but the internal stability has not generated significant development in any sector of national life. It is Hassan's dilemma how to generate dynamic change in the people characterized by apathy. Five years of absolutism has introduced a profound malaise which pervades all sectors, economic, agricultural, social as well as political. The gap between promise and delivery, in both the modern and traditional communities, characterizes all life in Morocco. The king seems the only unifying force the country has. |
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