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Titre : Expanding Spheres of Opposition ? Democratic Culture and Local Development in West African Municipalities

Pays/Région : Afrique de l’Ouest (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger)

Date : 1 January 2011–31 December 2013

Identifiant : 2013-06141_VR

Présentation
This comparative project focuses on democratic culture in order to identify expanding spheres of socio-political opposition in West African municipalities, notably Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. Here socio-political opposition includes, first, the sphere of party politics ; second, the sphere of collective and cultural manifestations of identity and belonging ; third, the sphere of development and socio-economic change ; fourth, the sphere of public debate and mass media ; and, finally, the sphere of anger, frustration and resistance where citizens express themselves politically while staying outside of formal politics.

The main research question concerns how political actors engage in spheres of socio-political opposition and the extent to which these spheres are expanding in the context of democratic decentralisation.

Coordination : Uppsala University

Financement : Swedish Research Council
Budget : 3,000,000 kr

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