Koechlin, Lucy.

Corruption as an empty signifier politics and political order in Africa / [electronic resource] : by Lucy Koechlin. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013. - xiii, 283 p. : ill., map. - Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; v. 10 . - African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 10. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Corruption, politics, and Africa -- 1. The academic discourse: political order and corruption in Africa -- 2. Sketching out an emancipatory discourse: corruption, political spaces and social imaginaries -- Interlude: a topography of corruption in Tanzania -- 3. Democratic spaces in the making? Professional associations and corruption in 2003 -- 4. Closures of democratic spaces? Professional associations and corruption in 2010 -- Conclusions: Corruption, politics, and political order.


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Political corruption--Africa.
Democratization--Africa.


Africa--Politics and government--1960-


Electronic books.

DT30.5 / .K644 2013

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