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Author Koechlin, Lucy.

Title Corruption as an empty signifier : politics and political order in Africa / by Lucy Koechlin.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
Series Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; v. 10
African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 10.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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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Summary 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.
Subject Political corruption -- Africa.
Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
Democratization -- Africa.
TRUE CRIME -- General.
Democratization. (OCoLC)fst00890123
Political corruption. (OCoLC)fst01069240
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
Chronological Term Since 1960
Other Form: Print version: Koechlin, Lucy. Corruption as an empty signifier. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013 9789004249998 (DLC) 2013011077 (OCoLC)830992872
ISBN 9789004252981 (electronic bk.)
9004252983 (electronic bk.)
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9781299638334 (electronic bk.)
9789004249998
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