Who is Responsible for Corruption? Framing strategies of social movements in West Africa mobilizing against presidential term amendments

<span class="abs_content">Since 2011 youth movements have staged large protests in African countries for presidential term limits. These have been discussed as struggles against de-democratization. Looking at the movements Y'en a marre in Senegal and Balai citoyen in Burkina Fas...

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Autores principales:	Louisa Prause, Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop
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Publicado:	Coordinamento SIBA 2018
Materias:	citizenship corruption presidential term limit social movements west africa Political science (General) JA1-92
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0d0abd78da0d4454882c106f0f19d8372021-11-21T15:11:39ZWho is Responsible for Corruption? Framing strategies of social movements in West Africa mobilizing against presidential term amendments1972-76232035-660910.1285/i20356609v10i3p850https://doaj.org/article/0d0abd78da0d4454882c106f0f19d8372018-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/18553https://doaj.org/toc/1972-7623https://doaj.org/toc/2035-6609<span class="abs_content">Since 2011 youth movements have staged large protests in African countries for presidential term limits. These have been discussed as struggles against de-democratization. Looking at the movements Y'en a marre in Senegal and Balai citoyen in Burkina Faso we argue that these protests were just as much triggered by socio-economic grievances linked to a corrupt patronage system. Indeed, corruption has been a major issue for both campaigns. We ask how the movement leaders linked the fight against corruption with their struggle against third term amendments in a way that sparked mass mobilization. We use the framing approach as our theoretical framework and show that a framing based on the concept of citizenship enabled both movements to link the issue of corruption to the issue of presidential term amendments and at the same time create a sense of agency in the constituency. This explains at least partly why both Y'en a marre and Balai Citoyen succeeded in their mobilizing efforts.</span><br />Louisa PrauseNina-Kathrin WienkoopCoordinamento SIBAarticlecitizenshipcorruptionpresidential term limitsocial movementswest africaPolitical science (General)JA1-92ENPartecipazione e Conflitto, Vol 10, Iss 3, Pp 850-873 (2018)
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description	<span class="abs_content">Since 2011 youth movements have staged large protests in African countries for presidential term limits. These have been discussed as struggles against de-democratization. Looking at the movements Y'en a marre in Senegal and Balai citoyen in Burkina Faso we argue that these protests were just as much triggered by socio-economic grievances linked to a corrupt patronage system. Indeed, corruption has been a major issue for both campaigns. We ask how the movement leaders linked the fight against corruption with their struggle against third term amendments in a way that sparked mass mobilization. We use the framing approach as our theoretical framework and show that a framing based on the concept of citizenship enabled both movements to link the issue of corruption to the issue of presidential term amendments and at the same time create a sense of agency in the constituency. This explains at least partly why both Y'en a marre and Balai Citoyen succeeded in their mobilizing efforts.</span><br />
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title	Who is Responsible for Corruption? Framing strategies of social movements in West Africa mobilizing against presidential term amendments
title_short	Who is Responsible for Corruption? Framing strategies of social movements in West Africa mobilizing against presidential term amendments
title_full	Who is Responsible for Corruption? Framing strategies of social movements in West Africa mobilizing against presidential term amendments
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title_full_unstemmed	Who is Responsible for Corruption? Framing strategies of social movements in West Africa mobilizing against presidential term amendments
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Who is Responsible for Corruption? Framing strategies of social movements in West Africa mobilizing against presidential term amendments

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