Moral economies of corruption : state formation and political culture in Nigeria / Steven Pierce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pierce, Steven, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corruption--Nigeria.

Corruption.

Political culture--Nigeria.

Political culture.

Nigeria.

Nigeria--Politics and government--To 1960.

Politics and government.

Nigeria--Politics and government--1960-.

Physical Description:

xii, 282 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Nigeria is famous for "419" e-mails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates even minor official interactions, from traffic control to university admissions. In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering how corruption plays an important role in the processes of political change in all states. He suggests that corruption is best understood in Nigeria, as well as in all other nations, as a culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically embedded practices. The best solution to combatting Nigerian government corruption, Pierce contends, is not through attempts to prevent officials from diverting public revenue to self-interested ends, but to ask how public ends can be served by accommodating Nigeria's history of patronage as a fundamental political principle. Book jacket.

Contents:

A tale of two emirs : colonialism and bureaucratizing emirates, 1900-1948

The political time : ethnicity and violence, 1948-1970

Oil and the "army arrangement" : corruption and the petro-state, 1970-1999

Moral economies of corruption

Nigerian corruption and the limits of the state.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822360773

0822360772

9780822360919

0822360918

9780822374541

0822374544

OCLC:

915135941