Moral Economies of Corruption : State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria

Pierce, Steven

Duke University Press（2016/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780822360919
• DDC分類 306.209669

Full Description

Nigeria is famous for "419" e-mails 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 Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering how corruption plays an important role in the processes of political change in all states. He suggests that corruption is best understood in Nigeria, as well as in all other nations, as a culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically embedded practices. The best solution to combatting Nigerian government corruption, Pierce contends, is not through attempts to prevent officials from diverting public revenue to self-interested ends, but to ask how public ends can be served by accommodating Nigeria's history of patronage as a fundamental political principle.  

Contents

Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction: Corruption Discourse and the Performance of Politics  1

Part I. From Caliphate to Federal Republic

1. A Tale of Two Emirs: Colonialism and Bureaucratizing Emirates, 1900-1948  27

2. The Political Time: Ethnicity and Violence, 1948-1970  63

3. Oil and the "Army Arrangement": Corruption and the Petro-State, 1970-1999  105

Part II. Corruption, Nigeria, and the Moral Imagination

4. Moral Economies of Corruption  153

5. Nigerian Corruption and the Limits of the State  188

Conclusion  219

Notes  231

Bibliography  257

Index  277