Le «contrat social» sénégalais à l’épreuve

Abstract

The senegalese social contract to the test. The Senegalese State has been tied to the religious brotherhoods for a long time by a social contract which is notow threatened. Since Abdou Diouf has come to power, the modernization of the political and administrative machinery seems to be bound to a conflict with the islamic tradition, bringing abouts faults in the logic of clientelism which had until now been operating. The elections not being considered as a way to a democratic alternation, the successful example of the Senegalese political stability is now challenged.