Just a day after Israelis go to the polls on January 22, neighboring Jordan will follow suit. “We changed the constitution…a new constitutional court, a new independent commission for elections and then we went to elections,” the monarch told The Daily Show in September. However, a new study suggests that despite robust debate on the electoral system, the number of new faces entering Jordanian politics will be very limited. The report points to the high percentage of candidates who served in the last two parliaments. “In the aftermath of the Jordanian Arab Spring, many wanted an elections law that can usher in a new, more robust, representative parliamentary government,” wrote journalist Daoud Kuttab. “From the look of things, the 17th Parliament of Jordan will most likely resemble the 16th or the ones before it.”

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