Deconstructing Corruption in Africa (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Kubbe, Ina; Johnston, Michael; Abdulai, Emmanuel Saffa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates corruption and anti-corruption efforts in Africa, emphasising the regional and thematic differences and looking at key patterns and trends. The book will interest politicians, public officials, and organizations, as well as students and researchers of political science, public administration and corruption studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040049464
• Artikelnr.: 72246775

Autorenporträt

Ina Kubbe is a professor at the University of Tel Aviv, at the School of Political International Relations, where she mainly researches and teaches on corruption, migration, gender politics, and conflict resolution. Ina is also a professor at the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) in Austria. She specialises in social science methodology and comparative research on empirical democracy, corruption and governance research. Ina has published several books, special issues, and articles in the field and is one of the founding members of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network (ICRN) as well as the Chair of the ECPR Standing Group on (Anti)Corruption and Integrity. Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai is a barrister and solicitor of the High Courts of Sierra Leone, and lecturer in the Department of Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Sierra Leone. He is deputy editor of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies' Law Review, and founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law in the Faculty of Law, Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone. Over the last two decades, Abdulai has been a leading campaigner for the passing and implementation of freedom of information law in Sierra Leone and Africa as a civil society practitioner working for the Society for Democratic Initiatives. Abdulai was chair of the Governing Council of the African Freedom of Information Council, and is also chairperson of the Political Affairs Cluster of the African Union's Economic Social and Cultural Council. Michael Johnston is a Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, USA. He retired from Colgate in 2015, but since 2012 has offered lectures and seminars at the International Anti-Corruption Academy near Vienna. He now lives in suburban Texas in the USA, and continues his research projects.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The many faces of corruption in Africa Part 1: Corruption in
the Political Sector 1. The Politics of State Capture in South Africa: A
New Variant of Corruption? 2. Domains of Corruption in Nigeria: A Four-Part
Taxonomy and Nigeria's Anti-Corruption Paradox 3. Recounting How Electoral
Corruption Manifests in Sierra Leone: Stories and Lessons from the Field 4.
Understanding Political Corruption in Uganda through the Lens of Complexity
Thinking and Historical Institutionalism 5. Unraveling the Complexities:
Identifying Persistent Factors Hindering Anti-Corruption Efforts in
Cameroon 6. Lobbying in Tunisia: Developing a Transparency Regime to Tackle
Perceptions of Corruption Part 2: Corruption in the Economic and Social
Sector 7. Corruption as an Investment Risk: A Case Study on Anti-corruption
Strategies in Djibouti 8. Debunking the Demand-Driven Myth of Corruption:
The Case of the Saint Louis Scandal in Mauritius 9. Charismatic Churches
and Corruption in Ghana: Feeding the Beast? 10. The Causes and Consequences
of Corruption in Zambia Conclusion: The Way Forward - Deconstructing the
Many Faces of Corruption in Africa