Everyday corruption and the state
Subtitle: citizens and public officials in Africa
By: Giorgio Blundo & Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan ; with N. Bako Arifari & M. Tidjani Alou ; translated by Susan Cox.
Contributors: Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre.
Publisher: David Philip; Zed; Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cape Town; London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Political corruption -- Africa; Judicial corruption -- Africa
Description: Daily life in Africa is governed by the?petty? corruption of public officials in services such as health, transport, or the judicial system. This remarkable study of everyday corruption in three African countries investigates the reasons for its extraordinary prevalence. The authors construct an illuminating analytical framework around the various forms of corruption, the corruptive strategies public officials resort to, and how these forms and strategies have become embedded in daily administrative practices. They investigate the roots of the system in the growing inability of weakened state.
Notes: Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-290) and index.