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Title: | Popular Views of the Legitimacy of the State in Mali |
Author: | Bratton, Michael |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | Canadian Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 36 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 197-238 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Mali |
Subjects: | legitimacy public opinion democracy market economy economic policy Politics and Government Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4107205 |
Abstract: | The results of interviews conducted in January 2001 with 2,089 adult Malians to assess public attitudes to political and economic reform suggest that although many say they prefer democracy to other political regimes, their level of political participation is low. Moreover, more people support democracy than prefer a market economy. People lend measured support to price reform but do not accept the downsizing of the State. And to the extent that Malians prefer social consensus and national unity to political and economic competition, multiparty democracy and a market economy will not easily take root in Mali. The legitimacy of the State hinges on popular satisfaction with the personal performance in office of individual leaders. This legacy of patron-clientelism leads Malians to project the shortcomings of leaders onto evaluations of whole regimes. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in French. |