基本説明
Fascinating case studies of Benin, Senegal and Niger based on detailed interviews and observation.
Full 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 states in Africa to either reward their employees adequately or to deliver expected services. They conclude that corruption in Africa today is qualitatively different from other parts of the world in its pervasiveness, its legitimations, and its huge impact on the nature of the state.
Contents
Part I: Approach, Method, Summary
1. Introduction: why should we study everyday corruption and how should we go about it?
2. Corruption in Africa and the social sciences: a review of the literature
3. Everyday corruption in West Africa
4. The popular semiology of corruption
Part II: Sectoral Studies
5. Corruption in the legal system
6. We don't eat the documents: Corruption in transport, customs and the civil forces
7. Corruption and public procurements
8. Corruption in the health sector
Part III: Cross-Disciplinary Topics
9. An independent republic: Everyday corruption in a Senegalese development co-operation programme
10. The war against corruption in Benin, Niger and Senegal: an historical approach
