Corruption as an Empty Signifier

Politics and Political Order in Africa

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Author(s)
Koechlin, Lucy
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU); KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection
Number
101508
Language
English
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Abstract
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.
URI
http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29587
Keywords
Political Science; Polical Science; africa; corruption; politics; Civil society; Construction; Democracy; Professional association; Tanzania
ISBN
9789004249998
OCN
1076783276
Publisher
Brill
Publisher website
https://brill.com/
Publication date and place
Leiden, Boston, 2013-01-05
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Classification
Corruption in politics, government and society
Public remark
Relevant Wikipedia pages: Civil society - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_society; Construction - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction; Democracy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy; Political corruption - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_corruption; Political system - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_system; Professional association - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_association; Tanzania - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania; 21-7-2020 - No DOI registered in CrossRef for ISBN 9789004249998
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