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 Economies of C...

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Autore principale: Pierce, Steven, 1968- (Autore)
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Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
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Sommario:
  • 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.