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_bEnglish
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050 0 0 _aHC501 AFR
100 1 _aMenthong, Hélène-Laure
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aLa question locale dans le débat constitutionnel au Cameroun:
_bchassé-croisé entre unité et pluralisme/
_ccreated by Hélène-Laure Menthong
264 1 _aDakar:
_bCODESRIA,
_c1988.
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
_bn
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
_bnc
440 _aAfrica development
_vVolume 23, number 1
520 3 _aThe socio-political history of the constitutional reform begun in Cameroon in 1991 and completed on January 18, 1996 reveals the bitterness of the struggles for the definition of the local problem in terms of legitimacy, identity and autonomy, as one of the major challenges of the democratic transition. Despite the ferment of rupture and the resurgence of ethnicism, regionalism and 'autonomic fever', the partition and dislocation of the State did not take place, although such a solution is not excluded. The debate on the local question leads to the reconfiguration of the unitary State in the sense of a new balance of tensions between the center and the periphery where the region poses itself as a framework for decentralization. The mystique of the unitary state now operates differently within the framework of a 'loose national identity'. The discourse on decentralization, regionalism, federation and even secession through the constitutional debate marks the anchoring, the rooting of the culture of the State. Identity particularisms, far from signifying the negation of the State, are its consecration since it is an issue for the control of a dominant center, a given space, the State.
650 _aSeparatism
_xConstitutional reform
_zCameroon
856 _uhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/24484512
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