Keywords
20 years after the reintroduction of multipartism
the democratization process seems to be a global failure in Africa. Yet
this article argues that the configuration of the public sphere has been deeply disrupted by the institutionalisation of universal suffrage. Although competitive voting has failed to fundamentally transform the structures of power
it has produced significant shifts within the popular imaginaries of power and legitimacy. But these changes remain a highly ambivalent and paradoxical process
the Beninese case study shows that it is partly in the melting pot of electoral clientelism that people learn how to vote
and “civic virtues†assert themselves. For a fuller understanding of this process of democratic subjectification
we must analyse the material culture of voting transactions in their most concrete aspect. In this respect
the domestication of an “importedâ€. democratic modernity is inextricably linked to the globalization of goods and objects belonging to the “material civilization of successâ€. democratización
clientelismo
movilización electoral
subjetivación polÃtica
economÃa moral
cultura material del voto
the democratization process seems to be a global failure in Africa. Yet
this article argues that the configuration of the public sphere has been deeply disrupted by the institutionalisation of universal suffrage. Although competitive voting has failed to fundamentally transform the structures of power
it has produced significant shifts within the popular imaginaries of power and legitimacy. But these changes remain a highly ambivalent and paradoxical process
the Beninese case study shows that it is partly in the melting pot of electoral clientelism that people learn how to vote
and “civic virtues†assert themselves. For a fuller understanding of this process of democratic subjectification
we must analyse the material culture of voting transactions in their most concrete aspect. In this respect
the domestication of an “importedâ€. democratic modernity is inextricably linked to the globalization of goods and objects belonging to the “material civilization of successâ€. democratización
clientelismo
movilización electoral
subjetivación polÃtica
economÃa moral
cultura material del voto
How to Cite
Banégas, R. (2014). Clientelismo electoral y subjetivación polÃtica en Ãfrica. Reflexiones a partir del caso de BenÃn. Desacatos. Revista De Ciencias Sociales, (36), 33–48. https://doi.org/10.29340/36.302