Ernest Harsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 519224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ernest Harsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ernest |
| FAMILY NAME | Harsch |
| SIGNATURE | HARSCH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8055-0907 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
African coups and the limits of electoralism
Burkina Faso
In October 2014, huge protests across Burkina Faso succeeded in overthrowing the long-entrenched regime of their authoritarian ruler, Blasie Compaoré. Defying all expectations, this popular movement went on to defeat an attempted coup by the old regime, making it possible for a transitional government to organize free and fair elections the following year. In doing so, the people of the previously obscure West African nation surprised the world, …
Burkina Faso
In October 2014, huge protests across Burkina Faso succeeded in overthrowing the long-entrenched regime of their authoritarian ruler, Blaise Compaoré. Defying all expectations, this popular movement went on to defeat an attempted coup by the old regime, making it possible for a transitional government to organize free and fair elections the following year. In doing so, the people of this previously obscure West African nation surprised the world,…
Blowing the Same Trumpet? Pluralist Protest in Burkina Faso
Protesters employed a great variety of organizational forms in the cycles of popular contention that rocked the West African country of Burkina Faso from early 2011 through the overthrow of President Blaise Compaoré in October 2014. While some actions appeared largely leaderless and unstructured, others were clearly better organized and under some central direction. The organizations ranged from very local and loosely linked networks of student a…
Cosatu’s Contested Legacy
COSATU’s Contested Legacy: South African Trade Unions in the Second Decade of Democracy." Social Movement Studies, 14(6), pp. 747–748
The Soweto Uprising
Nieftagodien argues that the Soweto uprising served as both an inspiration and a template for a second wave of unrest in the 1980s, which eventually led to apartheid's demise. His assessment is both lucid and compelling. It reminds us the that the struggle against apartheid did not just revolve around the ANC or famous leaders, but gained strength from young people who worked for change at the grassroots and who fought against great odds. - Afric…
The legacies of Thomas Sankara
A quarter century after the 15 October 1987 assassination of Thomas Sankara in a military coup, the late president of Burkina Faso remains a near-mythical hero for many young people in his country and across Africa. They idealise the image of a committed, self-sacrificing rebel, who during four years as leader of a small, impoverished Sahelian nation sought to improve the lives of ordinary people while at the same time projecting the country onto…
Popular Politics and Resistance Movements in South Africa
Popular Politics and Resistance Movements in South Africa." Social Movement Studies, 11(3-4), pp. 466–467
Urban Protest in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso has embarked on a course of decentralization in which elected local governments are assuming a share of decision making over a range of services and activities previously under central authority. But many of these municipalities have also become sites and targets of popular contestation, a reality that has rarely been acknowledged in the official discourses of decentralized governance. By employing social movement research methods, t…
Price protests expose state faults
Cheikh Diouf, from the rural community of Diakhao, walked out of a courtroom in Dakar in mid-April a free man. He was found not guilty of charges that he had “disturbed order” in Senegal’s parliament. The week before, he had managed to slip past security guards at the country’s National Assembly. As parliamentary deputies, during a break in their deliberations, walked to a restaurant in the building, Mr. Diouf brandished an empty rice sack on whi…
Peace pact raises hope in Senegal
As government and rebel leaders were gathering to sign a peace accord in Ziguinchor to end one of Africa’s longest civil conflicts, people in other parts of Casamance, Senegal’s southernmost region, were already experiencing the fruits of peace. With financing from the government, World Bank and other donors, some 35 kilometres of rural roads had been built over the past two years to 10 remote communities. Among a score of completed school projec…
Africa's New Leaders
Ottaway, Marina. 1999. Africa's New Leaders: Democracy or State Reconstruction? Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 135 pp
Africa, asia & anxieties about globalisation
For a number of African finance ministers, October 1998 was a month of heavy travel. First came the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Washington, then a little more than a week later the Second Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD-I1). In Washington, the Asian financial crisis and its impact on the world economy was the major preoccupation, yet, as Finance Minister Cassim Chilumpha …
Trop, ćest trop! Civil insurgence in Burkina Faso, 1998–99
(1999). Trop, cest trop! Civil insurgence in Burkina Faso, 1998–99. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 26, No. 81, pp. 395-406
Burkina Faso in the winds of liberalisation
A decade after the end of Burkina Faso's ‘democratic and popular revolution’, the Sahelian country has graduated to the top ranks of the World Bank's select class of model reformers. The regime of President Blaise Compaoré is frequently praised not only for its pursuit of economic liberalisation, but also its seeming commitment to the donor institutions’ current assortment of favoured notions: multiparty democracy, good governance and human devel…
The global coalition for Africa
The debates initiated by the Global Coalition for Africa (GCA) took a particularly heated turn during the final hours of its November 1995 conference in the Dutch city of Maastricht. One African leader after another, responding to repeated exhortations from Northern donor representatives to 'take ownership' of their economic and political reform programmes, stood up to vent their frustrations over the exacting aid conditions often laid down by ex…
Accumulators and Democrats
As the news of President Moussa Traoré's overthrow spread through Mali in March 1991, large crowds of people poured into the streets of Bamako, Segu, Kati, and other towns to exact retribution, culminating weeks of popular unrest. They went after prominent officials, military officers, and members of the wealthy élite that had prospered during the 23 years of Traoré's authoritarian rule. Customs and tax offices, traditional centres of high-level …
Angola
Burkina Faso
In October 2014, huge protests across Burkina Faso succeeded in overthrowing the long-entrenched regime of their authoritarian ruler, Blaise Compaoré. Defying all expectations, this popular movement went on to defeat an attempted coup by the old regime, making it possible for a transitional government to organize free and fair elections the following year. In doing so, the people of this previously obscure West African nation surprised the world,…
Accumulators and Democrats
As the news of President Moussa Traoré's overthrow spread through Mali in March 1991, large crowds of people poured into the streets of Bamako, Segu, Kati, and other towns to exact retribution, culminating weeks of popular unrest. They went after prominent officials, military officers, and members of the wealthy élite that had prospered during the 23 years of Traoré's authoritarian rule. Customs and tax offices, traditional centres of high-level …
Urban Protest in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso has embarked on a course of decentralization in which elected local governments are assuming a share of decision making over a range of services and activities previously under central authority. But many of these municipalities have also become sites and targets of popular contestation, a reality that has rarely been acknowledged in the official discourses of decentralized governance. By employing social movement research methods, t…
The legacies of Thomas Sankara
A quarter century after the 15 October 1987 assassination of Thomas Sankara in a military coup, the late president of Burkina Faso remains a near-mythical hero for many young people in his country and across Africa. They idealise the image of a committed, self-sacrificing rebel, who during four years as leader of a small, impoverished Sahelian nation sought to improve the lives of ordinary people while at the same time projecting the country onto…
Burkina Faso in the winds of liberalisation
A decade after the end of Burkina Faso's ‘democratic and popular revolution’, the Sahelian country has graduated to the top ranks of the World Bank's select class of model reformers. The regime of President Blaise Compaoré is frequently praised not only for its pursuit of economic liberalisation, but also its seeming commitment to the donor institutions’ current assortment of favoured notions: multiparty democracy, good governance and human devel…
Trop, ćest trop! Civil insurgence in Burkina Faso, 1998–99
(1999). Trop, cest trop! Civil insurgence in Burkina Faso, 1998–99. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 26, No. 81, pp. 395-406
Price protests expose state faults
Cheikh Diouf, from the rural community of Diakhao, walked out of a courtroom in Dakar in mid-April a free man. He was found not guilty of charges that he had “disturbed order” in Senegal’s parliament. The week before, he had managed to slip past security guards at the country’s National Assembly. As parliamentary deputies, during a break in their deliberations, walked to a restaurant in the building, Mr. Diouf brandished an empty rice sack on whi…
Blowing the Same Trumpet? Pluralist Protest in Burkina Faso
Protesters employed a great variety of organizational forms in the cycles of popular contention that rocked the West African country of Burkina Faso from early 2011 through the overthrow of President Blaise Compaoré in October 2014. While some actions appeared largely leaderless and unstructured, others were clearly better organized and under some central direction. The organizations ranged from very local and loosely linked networks of student a…
Africa, asia & anxieties about globalisation
For a number of African finance ministers, October 1998 was a month of heavy travel. First came the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Washington, then a little more than a week later the Second Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD-I1). In Washington, the Asian financial crisis and its impact on the world economy was the major preoccupation, yet, as Finance Minister Cassim Chilumpha …
Angola
Accumulators and Democrats
As the news of President Moussa Traoré's overthrow spread through Mali in March 1991, large crowds of people poured into the streets of Bamako, Segu, Kati, and other towns to exact retribution, culminating weeks of popular unrest. They went after prominent officials, military officers, and members of the wealthy élite that had prospered during the 23 years of Traoré's authoritarian rule. Customs and tax offices, traditional centres of high-level …
The global coalition for Africa
The debates initiated by the Global Coalition for Africa (GCA) took a particularly heated turn during the final hours of its November 1995 conference in the Dutch city of Maastricht. One African leader after another, responding to repeated exhortations from Northern donor representatives to 'take ownership' of their economic and political reform programmes, stood up to vent their frustrations over the exacting aid conditions often laid down by ex…
Burkina Faso in the winds of liberalisation
A decade after the end of Burkina Faso's ‘democratic and popular revolution’, the Sahelian country has graduated to the top ranks of the World Bank's select class of model reformers. The regime of President Blaise Compaoré is frequently praised not only for its pursuit of economic liberalisation, but also its seeming commitment to the donor institutions’ current assortment of favoured notions: multiparty democracy, good governance and human devel…
Africa, asia & anxieties about globalisation
For a number of African finance ministers, October 1998 was a month of heavy travel. First came the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Washington, then a little more than a week later the Second Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD-I1). In Washington, the Asian financial crisis and its impact on the world economy was the major preoccupation, yet, as Finance Minister Cassim Chilumpha …
Trop, ćest trop! Civil insurgence in Burkina Faso, 1998–99
(1999). Trop, cest trop! Civil insurgence in Burkina Faso, 1998–99. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 26, No. 81, pp. 395-406
Africa's New Leaders
Ottaway, Marina. 1999. Africa's New Leaders: Democracy or State Reconstruction? Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 135 pp
Peace pact raises hope in Senegal
As government and rebel leaders were gathering to sign a peace accord in Ziguinchor to end one of Africa’s longest civil conflicts, people in other parts of Casamance, Senegal’s southernmost region, were already experiencing the fruits of peace. With financing from the government, World Bank and other donors, some 35 kilometres of rural roads had been built over the past two years to 10 remote communities. Among a score of completed school projec…
Price protests expose state faults
Cheikh Diouf, from the rural community of Diakhao, walked out of a courtroom in Dakar in mid-April a free man. He was found not guilty of charges that he had “disturbed order” in Senegal’s parliament. The week before, he had managed to slip past security guards at the country’s National Assembly. As parliamentary deputies, during a break in their deliberations, walked to a restaurant in the building, Mr. Diouf brandished an empty rice sack on whi…
Urban Protest in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso has embarked on a course of decentralization in which elected local governments are assuming a share of decision making over a range of services and activities previously under central authority. But many of these municipalities have also become sites and targets of popular contestation, a reality that has rarely been acknowledged in the official discourses of decentralized governance. By employing social movement research methods, t…
Popular Politics and Resistance Movements in South Africa
Popular Politics and Resistance Movements in South Africa." Social Movement Studies, 11(3-4), pp. 466–467
The legacies of Thomas Sankara
A quarter century after the 15 October 1987 assassination of Thomas Sankara in a military coup, the late president of Burkina Faso remains a near-mythical hero for many young people in his country and across Africa. They idealise the image of a committed, self-sacrificing rebel, who during four years as leader of a small, impoverished Sahelian nation sought to improve the lives of ordinary people while at the same time projecting the country onto…
The Soweto Uprising
Nieftagodien argues that the Soweto uprising served as both an inspiration and a template for a second wave of unrest in the 1980s, which eventually led to apartheid's demise. His assessment is both lucid and compelling. It reminds us the that the struggle against apartheid did not just revolve around the ANC or famous leaders, but gained strength from young people who worked for change at the grassroots and who fought against great odds. - Afric…
Cosatu’s Contested Legacy
COSATU’s Contested Legacy: South African Trade Unions in the Second Decade of Democracy." Social Movement Studies, 14(6), pp. 747–748
Blowing the Same Trumpet? Pluralist Protest in Burkina Faso
Protesters employed a great variety of organizational forms in the cycles of popular contention that rocked the West African country of Burkina Faso from early 2011 through the overthrow of President Blaise Compaoré in October 2014. While some actions appeared largely leaderless and unstructured, others were clearly better organized and under some central direction. The organizations ranged from very local and loosely linked networks of student a…
Burkina Faso
In October 2014, huge protests across Burkina Faso succeeded in overthrowing the long-entrenched regime of their authoritarian ruler, Blasie Compaoré. Defying all expectations, this popular movement went on to defeat an attempted coup by the old regime, making it possible for a transitional government to organize free and fair elections the following year. In doing so, the people of the previously obscure West African nation surprised the world, …
Burkina Faso
In October 2014, huge protests across Burkina Faso succeeded in overthrowing the long-entrenched regime of their authoritarian ruler, Blaise Compaoré. Defying all expectations, this popular movement went on to defeat an attempted coup by the old regime, making it possible for a transitional government to organize free and fair elections the following year. In doing so, the people of this previously obscure West African nation surprised the world,…
African coups and the limits of electoralism
Political science (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Political economy (11 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (8 works) · Development economics (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Democracy (5 works)