Everyday corruption and the state citizens and public officials in Africa - Blundo, Giorgio (David Philip, 2006)
Translated from the French. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-290) and index
Why should we study everyday corruption and how should we go about it? - G. Blundo - J.-P. Olivier de Sardan -- - Corruption in Africa and the social sciences: a review of the literature - Giorgio Blundo -- - Everyday corruption in West Africa - G. Blundo - J.-P. Olivier de Sardan -- - Popular semiology of corruption - G. Blundo - J.-P. Olivier de Sardan -- - Corruption in the legal system - Mahaman Tidjani Alou -- - 'We don't eat the papers': corruption in transport, customs and the civil forces - Nassirou Bako Arifari -- - Ordered corruption? The social world of public procurement - Giorgio Blundo
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