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Koechlin, Lucy.

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

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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

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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.
Note	This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
Subject	Political corruption -- Africa.
	Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
	Democratization -- Africa.
	Corruption (Politique) -- Afrique.
	Afrique -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1960-
	Démocratisation -- Afrique.
	TRUE CRIME -- General.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
	Democratization
	Political corruption
	Politics and government
	Africa https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkHrMyfHC67yqRTycbrv3
Chronological Term	Since 1960
Other Form:	Print version: Koechlin, Lucy. Corruption as an empty signifier. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013 9789004249998 (DLC) 2013011077 (OCoLC)830992872
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	9004252983 (electronic bk.)
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	9789004249998
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