Publication

This report describes the distribution of public opinion in Mali with regard to democratic governance and economic reform. The authors find that Malians prefer democracy to other political regimes, and that they understand it in distinctive cultural terms and judge their satisfaction in terms of the personal performance of individual political leaders. The report also shows that in terms of economic orientations, Malians feel caught between state and market. It concludes that the legitimacy of the state depends on popular trust in public institutions and perceptions that public officials are not corrupt.