Démocratie et paradoxe du vote : fondements théoriques et enjeux socioéconomiques en Afrique subsaharienne francophone

Abstract

The widespread democratization in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa, driven by France since 1990 as a conditionality of development aid, has since come up against numerous constraints. The difficulty of appropriating the very principle of democracy is a real limit to its practical implementation, particularly because of the voting paradox associated with it. The resulting socio-economic challenges imply the state's capacity to guarantee fundamental citizen rights, not only formal but also in terms of equitable distribution and transmission within and between generations of capabilities.