The 2012 crisis in Mali: Ongoing empirical state failure

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Journal Article The 2012 crisis in Mali: Ongoing empirical state failure Get access Jaimie Bleck, Jaimie Bleck Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kristin Michelitch Kristin Michelitch * *Kristin Michelitch ([e-mail]) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Littlejohn Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University. Jaimie Bleck ([e-mail]) is a Ford Family Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. This research was funded with generous support from the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Catt Prize, the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame. We thank Michael Bratton, Nicolas van de Walle, Kevin Fridy and two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments as well as Liana Cramer, Jae Won Kim, and our team in Mali for excellent research support. A previous version of this paper appeared as Afrobarometer Working Paper 155. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 114, Issue 457, October 2015, Pages 598–623, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adv038 Published: 08 August 2015