LEADER 03328oam 22006374 450 001 9910137495803321 005 20230621135809.0 010 $a9780822374541$b(ebook) 010 $z9780822360773$b(hardback) 010 $z9780822360919$b(paperback) 035 $a(CKB)3710000000576285 035 $a(EBL)4412748 035 $a(OCoLC)933303670 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001603497 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16311241 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001603497 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13727701 035 $a(PQKB)11354902 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4412748 035 $a933303670 035 $a(OCoLC)1103883552 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73640 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88643 035 $a(Perlego)1466590 035 $a(oapen)doab88643 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000576285 100 $a20151222d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn#---|||u| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMoral economies of corruption $estate formation and political culture in Nigeria /$fSteven Pierce 210 $cDuke University Press$d2016 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (305 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-8223-6077-2 311 08$a0-8223-6091-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA tale of two emirs : colonialism and bureaucratizing emirates, 1900-1948 -- The political time : ethnicity and violence, 1948-1970 -- Oil and the "army arrangement" : corruption and the petro-state, 1970-1999 -- Moral economies of corruption -- Nigerian corruption and the limits of the state. 330 $aNigeria is famous for "419" emails 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. 606 $aCorruption$zNigeria 606 $aPolitical culture$zNigeria 607 $aNigeria$xPolitics and government$yTo 1960 607 $aNigeria$xPolitics and government$y1960- 615 0$aCorruption 615 0$aPolitical culture 676 $a306.209669 676 $a306.209669 700 $aPierce$b Steven$f1968-$0943231 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 912 $a9910137495803321 996 $aMoral economies of corruption$92255984 997 $aUNINA