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

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 Econ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pierce, Steven, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Politische Kultur
Korruption
Politics and government.
Political culture.
Corruption.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Corruption > Nigeria.
Political culture > Nigeria.
Nigeria
Nigeria.
Nigeria > Politique et gouvernement > 1960-
Nigeria > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 1960.
Nigeria > Politics and government > 1960-
Nigeria > Politics and government > To 1960.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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