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kobvindex_HPB933303670
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1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) :
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2020.
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9780822374541
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0822374544
Inhalt:
Nigeria is famous for "419" emails 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
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A tale of two emirs : colonialism and bureaucratizing emirates, 1900-1948 -- The political time : ethnicity and violence, 1948-1970 -- Oil and the "army arrangement" : corruption and the petro-state, 1970-1999 -- Moral economies of corruption -- Nigerian corruption and the limits of the state.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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In English.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Pierce, Steven, 1968- Moral economies of corruption. Durham : Duke University Press, 2016 ISBN 9780822360773
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780822360919
Sprache:
Englisch
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HathiTrust Digital Library
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ProQuest Ebook Central
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https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822374541
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/ku01.r2_106
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