{"product_id":"moral-economies-of-corruption-state-formation-and-political-culture-in-nigeria-9780822360919","title":"Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria","description":"Nigeria is famous for \"419\" e-mails 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 \u003ci\u003eMoral Economies of Corruption\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Pierce\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822360919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSteven Pierce is Senior Lecturer in Modern African History at the University of Manchester. He is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eDiscipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press, and the author of \u003ci\u003eFarmers and the State in Colonial Kano: Land Tenure and the Legal Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40198628933747,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":28.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_6f4b5de0-dcae-42d5-83e2-b1ba01c492e5.jpg?v=1656079538","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/moral-economies-of-corruption-state-formation-and-political-culture-in-nigeria-9780822360919","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}