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Everyday corruption and the state : citizens and public officials in Africa / Giorgio Blundo & Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan ; with N. Bako Arifari & M. Tidjani Alou ; translated by Susan Cox.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blundo, Giorgio, author.
- Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political corruption--Africa.
- Political corruption.
- Judicial corruption--Africa.
- Judicial corruption.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Distribution:
- [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Zed Books, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Daily life in Africa is governed by the?petty? corruption of public officials in services such as health, transport, or the judicial system. This remarkable study of everyday corruption in three African countries investigates the reasons for its extraordinary prevalence. The authors construct an illuminating analytical framework around the various forms of corruption, the corruptive strategies public officials resort to, and how these forms and strategies have become embedded in daily administrative practices. They investigate the roots of the system in the growing inability of weakened state.
- Contents:
- Part I. Approach, Method, Summary
- Chapter 1. Why should we study everyday corruption and how should we go about it? / G. Blundo and J.-P. Olivier de Sardan
- Chapter 2. Corruption in Africa and the social sciences: a review of the literature / Giorgio Blundo
- Chapter 3. Everyday corruption in West Africa / G. Blundo and J.-P. Olivier de Sardan
- Chapter 4. The popular semiology of corruption / G. Blundo and J.-P. Olivier de Sardan
- Part II. Sectoral Studies
- Chapter 5. Corruption in the legal system / Mahaman Tidjani Alou
- Chapter 6. 'We don't eat the papers': corruption in transport, customs and the civil forces / Nassirou Bako Arifari
- Chapter 7. An ordered corruption? : The social world of public procurement / Giorgio Blundo
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-290) and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786611215767
- 9781350219984
- 1350219983
- 9781848136649
- 1848136641
- 9781281215765
- 1281215767
- 9781848130951
- 1848130953
- OCLC:
- 476136595
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