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A moral economy of corruption in Africa?

de Sardan, J. P. Olivier·1999·The Journal of Modern African Studies
DOI 10.1017/s0022278x99002992
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As far as corruption in Africa is both conspicuous and generalised, it has to be studied from the viewpoint of the participants. This article starts with six general theses on corruption in Africa, which place it within a broader ‘corruption complex’, and emphasise its routine nature, the stigmatisation of corruption despite the absence of effective sanctions, its apparent irreversibility, the absence of correlation with regime types and its legitimacy to its perpetrators. Corruption is then shown to be socially embedded in ‘logics’ of negotiation, gift-giving, solidarity, predatory authority and redistributive accumulation. Any anti-corruption policy must face up to these realities.

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Authors
de Sardan, J. P. O.
Venue
The Journal of Modern African Studies
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1999-03
Volume
37
Issue
1
Pages
25-52
ISSN
  • 0022-278X (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-7777
DOI
10.1017/s0022278x99002992
OpenAlex
W2125993123
Cited by
874
References
10
FWCI
56.96
Type
journal article
Language
en
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