The Politics of Social Action in Morocco Shana Cohen Middle Class Morocco Social Action This paper analyses the attitudes of public sector professionals toward work in order to understand how a neoliberal policy orientation in Morocco has affected the relationship between social identity and political practice. The paper suggests that policy reforms have undermined the association between social identity and the nation-based social and political purpose of public institutions and instigated new dependence in self-identification and political practice on relations with low-income service users. Professionals no longer act to preserve a conceptual identification like the middle class, instead finding political and social meaning through demonstrating the capacity to defy institutional rules and policy expectations of behaviour. Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg 2014 2014-05-16 2018-01-31 Text article urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2014-37-13249 eng 2714728-9 2 1 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/article/download/1324/2094 10.17192/meta.2014.2.1324 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2014/37/1324