Corruption as an empty signifier : politics and political order in Africa

Author:

Koechlin, Lucy

Place:

Leiden

Publisher:

Brill

Phys descriptions:

xiii, 283p. : tables, charts

Date published:

2013

Record type:

Book/Monograph

Region:

Africa

Subject:

POLITICAL CORRUPTION

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

DEMOCRATIZATION

AFRICA.

ISBN:

978-90-04-24999-8

Call No:

328.185(6) AFR

Abstract:

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.

Language:

English

Series:

Afrika-Studiecentrum series, v. 29.

CITATION: Koechlin, Lucy. Corruption as an empty signifier : politics and political order in Africa . Leiden : Brill , 2013. - Available at: https://library.au.int/frcorruption-empty-signifier-politics-and-political-order-africa-14