Iraq party
State of Law Coalition
ائتلاف دولة القانونShia Islamist electoral coalition centered on the Islamic Dawa Party; led by former PM Nouri al-Maliki. Mixes Islamic-democratic framing with Shia communal politics.
- Founded
- 2009
- Current leader
- Nouri al-Maliki
- Founders
- Nouri al-Maliki; Islamic Dawa Party
Position — compass as of 2026-06-08
First-pass hand-coded estimate; pending second-pass external review. See methodology for the rubric.
Across the dataset
Open full comparison →Nearest
Closest by average Euclidean distance across all axes.
Most divergent
Farthest by the same metric. Useful for "anti-axis" framing.
Position — all axes
Briefs about State of Law Coalition
Comparative political-science briefs pairing this party with others. 1 brief on file.
Members & affiliated figures
Politicians currently identified with this party — leaders, ministers, MPs, and other active figures. All affiliated politicians →
Recent events
Political events involving this party — formations, mergers, leadership changes, designation shifts. All events at /pulse →
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Iraqi 2010 election: Allawi wins, Maliki forms government
The 2010 Iraqi parliamentary election ended with Iyad Allawi's Iraqiya bloc narrowly winning the most seats. However, Maliki's State of Law Coalition outmaneuvered Allawi over 9 months to form the government — a moment widely seen as setting Iraq on the sectarian path that enabled ISIS's 2014 rise.
Declared vs. behavioral
For the axes below, this party's declared position (what the party says in its platform / official rhetoric) diverges from its behavioral position (its record of votes, coalition choices, or public actions). The spread itself is the methodological point — capturing the gap that a single composite score collapses.
- Liberal democracy spread: 8.0D: +5.0 B: -3.0 C: -6.0
Lens spreads are currently hand-coded on a curated set of cases where the gap is well-documented. Document-grounded scoring against the party's own platform documents (declared) and its voting / coalition record (behavioral) will scale this across the dataset. See methodology for the full lens-system roadmap.
Source documents
Texts the scoring pipeline reads — manifestos, speeches, platforms. Each document's verbatim content backs the position score above; the model cites specific phrases from these texts when scoring. All documents →
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Party platform Arabic 2025-10-01 البرنامج الانتخابي لائتلاف دولة القانون — الثوابت السياسية والمرتكزات الوطنية
استمد الائتلاف اسمه من الدولة والقانون، لإيمانه بمشروع الدولة وأهمية بناء دولة دستورية وقانونية ذات سيادة كاملة، تعمل على ترسيخ ثقافة المشاركة السياسية واحترام خيارات الشعب العراقي بمختلف مكوناته، على مبدأ المواطنة…
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Article English 2013-04-28 State of Law-led (Maliki) government's press-freedom record: the Communications and Media Commission's 28 Apr 2013 suspension of 10 satellite channels (incl. Al Jazeera), targeting opposition/pro-Sunni outlets after their Hawija-raid coverage — HRW found no legal basis (arbitrary). Documented by Human Rights Watch (30 Apr 2013); corroborated by CPJ.
The official Communications and Media Commission suspended the licenses on April 28, 2013, amid spiraling violence and anti-government demonstrations in Sunni-majority provinces. The license suspensions targeted…
Sources
Per-field citations for the verified claims above. Other fields (notably the compass scores) remain hand-coded priors and are marked unverified until they pass the methodology pipeline — see methodology.
- founded_year en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Founded 2009 around Nouri al-Maliki's Islamic Dawa Party
- current_leader_text en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Maliki has led the coalition continuously since 2009
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). State of Law Coalition [Party profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/state-of-law
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "State of Law Coalition." Party profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/state-of-law.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-state-of-law,
title = {{State of Law Coalition}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Party profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/state-of-law},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.