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9781842775622

Everyday Corruption and the State Citizens and Public Officials in Africa

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  • ISBN13:

    9781842775622

  • ISBN10:

    1842775626

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-10-03
  • Publisher: Zed Books

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Summary

This detailed study of everyday corruption in three different African countries highlights its alarming prevalence. The authors analyze the various forms of corruption; the corrupt strategies public officials resort to; and how these forms and strategies have become embedded in the daily administrative practices of the state. The authors investigate the roots of the system, notably the growing inability of weakened states in Africa to reward their employees adequately or deliver the services on the scale expected of the state in the age of structural adjustment and collapsing commodity prices.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

PART I Approach, Method, Summary
Why should we study everyday corruption and how should we go about it?
3(12)
G. Blundo
J.-P. Olivier de Sardan
Corruption in Africa and the social sciences: a review of the literature
15(54)
Giorgio Blundo
Everyday corruption in West Africa
69(41)
G. Blundo
J.-P. Olivier de Sardan
The popular semiology of corruption
110(27)
G. Blundo
J.-P. Olivier de Sardan
PART II Sectoral Studies
Corruption in the legal system
137(40)
Mahaman Tidjani Alou
`We don't eat the papers': corruption in transport, customs and the civil forces
177(48)
Nassirou Bako Arifari
An ordered corruption? The social world of public procurement
225(38)
Giorgio Blundo
Notes 263(12)
Bibliography 275(16)
Index 291

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