Cover

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acronyms

1. Insurgent Citizens and the State

Citizen Awakening

2. Uneasy Colonial Roots

Colonial Conquest and State-Making

Decolonization

3. Ministries of Plunder

Officers at the Helm

Politicians Back at the Trough

“Lies and Deceit”

Colonels’ “Discipline”

4. From Crisis to Revolution

The Conseil Du Salut Du Peuple

Power in the Balance

The Conseil National De La Révolution

5. Refashioning the State

Localization of the State

Transforming the Civil Service

New Courts to “Fry Big Fish”

An Army of the People?

6. On Fragile Ground

Budget Cutting in Public View

State Enterprises under a Microscope

Reinforcing Tax Collection

"Home-Cooked" Rigour

Seeking New Social Alliances

Nation-Building

7. Mobilization from Above and Below

Confronting Rural Complexities

Social Mobilization

Village and Farmers’ Associations

Women’s Organization

Labour

Despots, Gangsters, and Imposters

8. Coup and “Rectification”

Between Conciliation and Coercion

Social Tensions and Infighting

The October 1987 Coup

Flexible Helmsman for a Contradictory Course

In Search of New Allies

Political Adaptation

9. “Democracy” with a Heavy Hand

Controlled Constitutionalization

Bitter Elections

An Encompassing “Party-State”

Patronage under Arms

Harvesting Votes

A Fragmented Opposition

Change Impossible?

10. Enrichment in a Land of Poverty

Adjustment, Aid, and Conditionality

From Public to Private

Rural Inequities

Not All Glitter

Cronies, Fraudsters, and the Corrupt

A Tainted Military

Persistent Poverty

11. Tug of War within the State

Pockets of Reform

Local Government and Contestation

Battling for Justice

“Kalashnikov Concerts” and Coup Plots

12. Contention in the Streets

Local and National

Culture of Protest

“Burkina Will Have Its Egypt!”

13. From Confrontation to Insurrection

Recomposition, Above and Below

Burying a Senate

“Battle of the Stadiums”

Countdown to an Uprising

“Uprooted By the People”

14. A Troubled Transition

Contradictory Pressures

Another Showdown

Rush to Reform

Towards Electoral Legitimacy

No "Honeymoon"

15. A New Burkina Faso?

Unfinished Reforms, New Challenges

Beyond Borders

Notes

References

Index