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PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages 850-873Publisher
COORDINAMENTO SIBA
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v10i3p850
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Citizenship; corruption; presidential term limit; social movements; West Africa
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- Freie Universitat Berlin within the Excellence Initiative of the German Research Foundation
- Leuphana University Luneburg
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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.
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