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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pierce, Steven, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Online Access:Full text available:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a22000004a 4500
001 musev2_64130
003 MdBmJHUP
005 20240815120756.0
006 m o d
007 cr||||||||nn|n
008 151222t20162016ncu o 00 0 eng d
020 |a 9780822374541 
020 |z 9781478091226 
020 |z 9780822360919 
020 |z 9780822360773 
035 |a (OCoLC)1103883552 
040 |a MdBmJHUP  |c MdBmJHUP 
100 1 |a Pierce, Steven,  |d 1968-  |e author. 
245 1 0 |a Moral Economies of Corruption :   |b State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria /   |c Steven Pierce. 
264 1 |a Durham :  |b Duke University Press,  |c 2016. 
264 3 |a Baltimore, Md. :  |b Project MUSE,   |c 2019 
264 4 |c ©2016. 
300 |a 1 online resource (298 pages):   |b maps 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
505 0 |a 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. 
506 0 |a Open Access  |f Unrestricted online access  |2 star 
520 8 |a 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. 
546 |a In English. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
650 7 |a Politische Kultur  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Korruption  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Politics and government.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 
650 7 |a Political culture.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01069263 
650 7 |a Corruption.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01352550 
650 7 |a SOCIAL SCIENCE  |x Criminology.  |2 bisacsh 
650 6 |a Corruption  |z Nigeria. 
650 0 |a Political culture  |z Nigeria. 
650 0 |a Corruption  |z Nigeria. 
651 7 |a Nigeria  |2 gnd 
651 7 |a Nigeria.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01205229 
651 6 |a Nigeria  |x Politique et gouvernement  |y 1960- 
651 6 |a Nigeria  |x Politique et gouvernement  |y Jusqu'à 1960. 
651 0 |a Nigeria  |x Politics and government  |y 1960- 
651 0 |a Nigeria  |x Politics and government  |y To 1960. 
655 7 |a Electronic books.   |2 local 
710 2 |a Project Muse.  |e distributor 
830 0 |a Book collections on Project MUSE. 
856 4 0 |z Full text available:   |u https://muse.jhu.edu/book/64130/ 
999 |c 232455  |d 232454