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Le rôle des mouvements citoyens dans le processus électoral en Afrique subsaharienne: le cas du "Balai citoyen"
The role of Grassroot movements in the electoral process in Sub-Saharan Africa: the "Balai citoyen" case in Burkina Faso
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Abstract The article examines the evolution of grass-root movements in Africa after 2011 in the electoral context marked by the incumbent president's plan to preserve power indefinitely. A case study on the Balai citoyen (citizen broom) movement is proposed. The article aims to identify the logic, the rhetor... view more
The article examines the evolution of grass-root movements in Africa after 2011 in the electoral context marked by the incumbent president's plan to preserve power indefinitely. A case study on the Balai citoyen (citizen broom) movement is proposed. The article aims to identify the logic, the rhetoric and the mobilization that this youth civil movement proposes in the context of the 2013-2014 contestation of the regime. A success story that continues also after the president's fall, in October 2014, and translates into a mobilization that converts the revolutionary logic of the movement into the classic perspective assumed by pressure groups.... view less
Keywords
Burkina Faso; election; transition; Africa; conflict management; youth movement; citizens' movement
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
grassroot movement; Burkina Faso; Balai Citoyen; elections; transition
Document language
French
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 511-537
Journal
Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, XVI (2016) 4
ISSN
1582-4551
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works