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Jan 13, 2021
Inside Syria's Clapping Chamber: Dynamics of the 2020 Parliamentary Elections
Middle East Institute (Research Tool), Dr Karam Shaar and Samy Akil, 14 Jan 2021
The composition of Syria's parliament matters not because it influences the policies of the autocratic country, but because it provides an excellent lens through which we can understand the patronage and clientele networks of al-Assad regime. Dr Karam Shaar and Sami Akil wrote this study on Syria's 2020 parliamentary elections, published in the Middle East Institute. Using various sources, the study provides a very comprehensive summary of the backgrounds of all 250 MPs on 14 different variables (3,500 pieces of information). You can use the bespoke interactive visualization to interrogate the data and read the subsequent write up for a thorough discussion of the findings.

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