Layering and perpetuating: The logics of conservative reforms in Morocco's irrigation policies

Mayaux Pierre-Louis. 2024. Layering and perpetuating: The logics of conservative reforms in Morocco's irrigation policies. Journal of North African Studies, 29 (2) : 359-382.

Résumé : Since the 1980s, Morocco's irrigation policies have displayed a puzzling combination of multiple reforms and of deep policy continuity. To make sense of these contradictory patterns, we start by reconceptualising four decades of change as the successive layering of three distinct policy regimes (laissez-faire, delegation, and integration) on top of the older modernisation regime dating back to the colonial era. We show that layering had the – partly unexpected – effect of sustaining the legitimacy of modernisation policies in the face of multiple pressures for change. It did so through three distinct mechanisms: the co-optation of international donors; the blurring of responsibility for socially harmful outcomes; and the opportunistic re-legitimisation of modernisation policies enabled by this blurring. Our case study thus contributes to emerging theorisations of the conservative effects of policy layering. It also has implications for broader understandings of regime-wide transformism, of which sector-specific conservative layering might well be a key modality.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : irrigation, réforme, politique de l'eau

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Maroc

Mots-clés libres : Morocco, Irrigation, Layering, Policy regime, Transformism

Classification Agris : P10 - Ressources en eau et leur gestion
F06 - Irrigation
E10 - Économie et politique agricoles

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 5 (2019-) - Territoires

Agences de financement hors UE : Agence Nationale de la Recherche

Auteurs et affiliations

• Mayaux Pierre-Louis, CIRAD-ES-UMR G-EAU (FRA) - auteur correspondant

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/600774/)

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