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. / Prause, Louisa; Wienkoop, Nina Kathrin.
In: Partecipazione e Conflitto, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2017, p. 850-873.

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@article{a2483738959f4ceaba1b06434b142a04,
title = "Who is responsible for corruption?: Framing strategies of social movements in West Africa mobilizing against presidential term amendments",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "Citizenship, Corruption, Presidential term limit, Social movements, West Africa, Politics, Culture and Space",
author = "Louisa Prause and Wienkoop, {Nina Kathrin}",
note = "Funding Information: We are very grateful for the support of the Freie Universit{\"a}t Berlin within the Excellence Initiative of the German Research Foundation and the Leuphana University L{\"u}ne-burg. We highly appreciate the helpful comments of two anonymous reviewers on a former version of this article. Further, we would like to thank Anne Hansen and Gur-meet Singh for their support. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 - University of Salento.",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1285/i20356609v10i3p850",
language = "English",
volume = "10",
pages = "850--873",
journal = "Partecipazione e Conflitto",
issn = "1972-7623",
publisher = "Universit{\`a} del Salento",
number = "3",

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AU - Prause, Louisa

AU - Wienkoop, Nina Kathrin

N1 - Funding Information: We are very grateful for the support of the Freie Universität Berlin within the Excellence Initiative of the German Research Foundation and the Leuphana University Lüne-burg. We highly appreciate the helpful comments of two anonymous reviewers on a former version of this article. Further, we would like to thank Anne Hansen and Gur-meet Singh for their support. Publisher Copyright: © 2017 - University of Salento.

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N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Citizenship

KW - Corruption

KW - Presidential term limit

KW - Social movements

KW - West Africa

KW - Politics

KW - Culture and Space

UR - http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/18553/15855

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EP - 873

JO - Partecipazione e Conflitto

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SN - 1972-7623

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