Abstract
As far as corruption in Africa is both conspicuous and generalised,
it has
to be studied from the viewpoint of the participants. This article starts
with
six general theses on corruption in Africa, which place it within a broader
‘corruption complex’, and emphasise its routine nature, the
stigmatisation
of corruption despite the absence of effective sanctions, its apparent
irreversibility,
the absence of correlation with regime types and its legitimacy to
its perpetrators. Corruption is then shown to be socially embedded in ‘logics’
of negotiation, gift-giving, solidarity, predatory authority and redistributive
accumulation. Any anti-corruption policy must face up to these realities.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Sociology and Political Science,Geography, Planning and Development
Cited by
550 articles.
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