Moral Economies of Corruption : State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria / Steven Pierce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pierce, Steven, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham NC : Duke University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Maps

Introduction: Corruption Discourse and the Performance of Politics

Part I. From Caliphate to Federal Republic

1 A Tale of Two Emirs

2 The Political Time

3 Oil and the “Army Arrangement”

Part II. Corruption, Nigeria, and the Moral Imagination

4 Moral Economies of Corruption

5 Nigerian Corruption and the Limits of the State

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478091226

1478091223

OCLC:

1030815420

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1353/book.64130