In an opinion piece for Foreign Policy, Temple political scientist Sean Yom weighs the pros and cons of the new amendments to the Jordanian constitution. He calls the move "controlled liberalization." "Executing the proposed amendments is important, but they alone will not make elections more competitive, political parties any stronger, corruption less rampant or rural development more equitable," he writes. "The constitutional revisions need to be a starting point, not a final gambit, if the king hopes to move off the dangerous track on which Jordan has been running."