Everyday Corruption and the State

Citizens and Public Officials in Africa

AvGiorgio Blundo,Jean-Pierre Olivier de-Sardan

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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 states in Africa to either reward their employees adequately or to deliver expected services. They conclude that corruption in Africa today is qualitatively different from other parts of the world in its pervasiveness, its legitimations, and its huge impact on the nature of the state.

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Utgivningsdatum:2008-02-29
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:305
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781848130951
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Dr Giorgio Blundo currently holds a senior position at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales at Marseille.Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan is Professor of Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Marseilles and Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.

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This scholarly, insightful book demonstrates in detail many characteristics of the worst kind of corruption.

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Part I: Approach, Method, Summary1. Introduction: why should we study everyday corruption and how should we go about it?2. Corruption in Africa and the social sciences: a review of the literature3. Everyday corruption in West Africa4. The popular semiology of corruptionPart II: Sectoral Studies5. Corruption in the legal system6. We don't eat the documents: Corruption in transport, customs and the civil forces7. Corruption and public procurements8. Corruption in the health sectorPart III: Cross-Disciplinary Topics9. An independent republic: Everyday corruption in a Senegalese development co-operation programme10. The war against corruption in Benin, Niger and Senegal: an historical approach