Title: Corruption as an Empty Signifier
Description: Corruption as an Empty Signifier critically explores the ways in which corruption in Africa has been equated with African politics and political order, and offers a novel approach to understanding corruption as a potentially emancipatory discourse of political transformation. Conventionally, both academic literature as well as development policies depict corruption as the lynchpin of politics in Africa, locking African societies into political orders which subvert democratic change.
Subjects: Political corruption, Africa, politics and government, Political science, africa, Politics and government, Democratization