Corruption as an Empty Signifier
Politics and Political Order in Africa
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Author(s)
Koechlin, Lucy
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Political Science; Polical Science; africa; corruption; politics; Civil society; Construction; Democracy; Professional association; TanzaniaISBN
9789004249998Publisher
BrillPublisher website
http://www.brill.comPublication date and place
Leiden, Boston, 2013-01-05Grantor
Classification
Corruption in politics, government and society