TY - JOUR

T1 - Who is responsible for corruption?

T2 - Framing strategies of social movements in West Africa mobilizing against presidential term amendments

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.

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

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

U2 - 10.1285/i20356609v10i3p850

DO - 10.1285/i20356609v10i3p850

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85041620684

VL - 10

SP - 850

EP - 873

JO - Partecipazione e Conflitto

JF - Partecipazione e Conflitto

SN - 1972-7623

IS - 3

ER -