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Author Blundo, Giorgio.

Title 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
Published Cape Town : David Philip ; London ; New York : Zed ; New York : Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (298 pages)
Contents Why should we study everyday corruption and how should we go about it? / G. Blundo, J.-P. Olivier de Sardan -- Corruption in Africa and the social sciences: a review of the literature / Giorgio Blundo -- Everyday corruption in West Africa / G. Blundo, J.-P. Olivier de Sardan -- Popular semiology of corruption / G. Blundo, J.-P. Olivier de Sardan -- Corruption in the legal system / Mahaman Tidjani Alou -- 'We don't eat the papers': corruption in transport, customs and the civil forces / Nassirou Bako Arifari -- Ordered corruption? The social world of public procurement / Giorgio Blundo
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-290) and index
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Subject Political corruption -- Africa
Judicial corruption -- Africa
TRUE CRIME -- General.
Corruption.
Fonctionnaires.
Pouvoirs publics.
Judicial corruption
Political corruption
Korruption
Africa.
Benin.
Niger.
Senegal.
corruption.
86.42 offences.
Corruption.
Afrique.
Africa
Afrika
Africa.
Form Electronic book
Author Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre.
ISBN 9781848130951
1848130953
1281215767
9781281215765