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Civil liberties

الحريات المدنية

Speech, protest, dissent, association, press freedom — expand and protect (positive) vs. restrict (negative).

Scoring rubric

How positions are calibrated on this axis. The conventions guide the scorer; anchored examples show how known MENA actors land at -10, -5, 0, +5, +10.

Score the actor's record on protecting civil liberties: freedom of press, assembly, association, dissent. Distinct from the social axis (which is about personal-life regulation) and from democracy (which is about elections and rule of law). An actor can favor democracy abstractly while having a poor civil liberties record (e.g., majoritarian populism). Score on the actor's record where in power.

  • -10
    Active suppression of dissent
    Houthis, Sisi-era Egyptian state parties
  • -7
    Strong illiberalism, restricts press
    State of Law Iraq, Otzma Yehudit
  • -3
    Mixed record
    FLN Algeria, Most Maghreb ruling parties
  • +0
    Standard governance compromises
    Many centrist parties
  • +3
    Pro-civil-liberties in principle
    Egyptian SDP, ESDP
  • +7
    Strong civil-liberties focus
    FFS Algeria, Hadash
  • +10
    Civil-liberties absolutism
    Liberal Israeli left (rare)
Parties scored
81
Mean
-0.05
Median
+0.00
Std dev
5.12
Range
-9.0 → 9.0

Ranking

All parties scored on this axis, sorted from most Expand to most Restrict.

Restrict ← → Expand

-10-5+0+5+10
  1. 1 Hadash IL
    +9.0
  2. 2 The Democrats IL
    +8.0
  3. 3 Sudanese Communist Party SD
    +7.5
  4. 4 Ta'al IL
    +7.0
  5. 5 Balad IL
    +7.0
  6. 6 Israeli Labor Party IL
    +7.0
  7. 7 Mubadara PS
    +7.0
  8. 8 Egyptian Social Democratic Party EG
    +7.0
  9. 9 Yesh Atid IL
    +7.0
  10. 10 Syrian National Coalition SY
    +6.5
  11. 11 Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society BH
    +6.5
  12. 12 Union of Forces of Progress MR
    +6.5
  13. 13 Socialist Forces Front DZ
    +6.0
  14. 14 Jordanian Communist Party JO
    +6.0
  15. 15 Tunisian Workers Party TN
    +5.0
  16. 16 Workers' Party DZ
    +5.0
  17. 17 National Forces Alliance LY
    +5.0
  18. 18 Palestinian People's Party PS
    +5.0
  19. 19 Free Egyptians Party EG
    +4.5
  20. 20 New Wafd Party EG
    +4.3
  21. 21 Socialist Union of Popular Forces MA
    +4.0
  22. 22 National Unity IL
    +4.0
  23. 23 Yemeni Socialist Party YE
    +4.0
  24. 24 Kataeb Party LB
    +4.0
  25. 25 National Umma Party SD
    +4.0
  26. 26 Long Live Tunisia TN
    +4.0
  27. 27 Tagammu Party EG
    +4.0
  28. 28 Lebanese Forces LB
    +3.5
  29. 29 New Hope IL
    +3.0
  30. 30 Progressive Socialist Party LB
    +3.0
  31. 31 Ennahda TN
    +2.5
  32. 32 Democratic Unionist Party SD
    +2.5
  33. 33 Reform Party JO
    +2.5
  34. 34 PFLP PS
    +2.5
  35. 35 DFLP PS
    +2.5
  36. 36 Ra'am (United Arab List) IL
    +2.5
  37. 37 People's Movement TN
    +2.0
  38. 38 National Rally for Reform and Development (Tewassoul) MR
    +1.0
  39. 39 Yisrael Beiteinu IL
    +0.5
  40. 40 Istiqlal Party MA
    +0.0
  41. 41 National Rally of Independents MA
    +0.0
  42. 42 Islamic Action Front JO
    -0.5
  43. 43 Authenticity and Modernity Party MA
    -1.0
  44. 44 National Wisdom Movement IQ
    -1.0
  45. 45 National Charter Party JO
    -1.0
  46. 46 Patriotic Union of Kurdistan IQ
    -1.5
  47. 47 Justice and Development Party MA
    -2.0
  48. 48 Sairoon Alliance IQ
    -2.0
  49. 49 Free Patriotic Movement LB
    -2.5
  50. 50 Justice and Construction Party LY
    -2.5
  51. 51 Likud IL
    -2.5
  52. 52 El Insaf (Equity Party) MR
    -3.0
  53. 53 Movement of Society for Peace DZ
    -3.0
  54. 54 Kurdistan Democratic Party IQ
    -3.0
  55. 55 Northern Islamic Movement IL
    -3.0
  56. 56 Shas IL
    -4.0
  57. 57 Southern Transitional Council YE
    -4.0
  58. 58 Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Islah) YE
    -4.0
  59. 59 Amal Movement LB
    -4.0
  60. 60 Freedom and Justice Party EG
    -4.0
  61. 61 Al-Menbar Islamic Society BH
    -4.0
  62. 62 Free Destourian Party TN
    -4.0
  63. 63 United Torah Judaism IL
    -4.5
  64. 64 Democratic National Rally DZ
    -4.5
  65. 65 General People's Congress YE
    -5.0
  66. 66 Religious Zionism Party IL
    -6.0
  67. 67 Fatah PS
    -6.0
  68. 68 National Liberation Front DZ
    -6.0
  69. 69 Islamic Asalah Society BH
    -6.0
  70. 70 Hayat Tahrir al-Sham SY
    -6.5
  71. 71 State of Law Coalition IQ
    -6.5
  72. 72 Nour Party EG
    -6.5
  73. 73 Mostaqbal Watan EG
    -7.0
  74. 74 Noam IL
    -8.0
  75. 75 Islamic Salvation Front DZ
    -8.0
  76. 76 Hamas PS
    -8.0
  77. 77 Otzma Yehudit IL
    -8.0
  78. 78 Hezbollah LB
    -8.0
  79. 79 Palestinian Islamic Jihad PS
    -8.0
  80. 80 Ansar Allah (Houthis) YE
    -8.5
  81. 81 Ba'ath Party (Syria) SY
    -9.0

Score distribution

Histogram of scores across all 81 parties. Mean -0.05, median +0.00, σ 5.12. Multi-modal distributions point to genuine cleavages on this axis; unimodal narrow ones to consensus.

-9: 1 party -8: 7 parties 7 -7: 1 party -6: 7 parties 7 -5: 1 party -4: 9 parties 9 -3: 4 parties -2: 5 parties 5 -1: 4 parties +0: 3 parties +1: 2 parties +2: 1 party +3: 8 parties 8 +4: 9 parties 9 +5: 5 parties 5 +6: 2 parties +7: 9 parties 9 +8: 2 parties +9: 1 party −10 0 +10

Restrict Expand

By country

Mean score per country.

  • Sudan 3 parties
    +4.67
  • Tunisia 5 parties
    +1.90
  • Jordan 4 parties
    +1.75
  • Mauritania 3 parties
    +1.50
  • Libya 2 parties
    +1.25
  • Israel 17 parties
    +1.12
  • Egypt 7 parties
    +0.32
  • Morocco 5 parties
    +0.20
  • Lebanon 6 parties
    -0.67
  • Palestine 7 parties
    -0.71
  • Bahrain 3 parties
    -1.17
  • Algeria 6 parties
    -1.75
  • Iraq 5 parties
    -2.80
  • Syria 3 parties
    -3.00
  • Yemen 5 parties
    -3.50

Cross-axis correlations

How parties' scores on this axis covary with their scores on each other axis. Pearson r runs from −1 (perfect inverse) to +1 (perfect identity); 0 means independent. Computed across all parties scored on both axes (n shown per row). Strong correlations expose which axes are really measuring the same cleavage in the data; near-zero values are the ones with the most additional explanatory power.

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