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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 57–69.
Published: 01 May 2012
... and corruption by critically examining technologies of accountability and transparency foregrounded by DF to counter possible corruption allegations against the association. Through an ethnographic study of various governance processes, the study aims to reach a comprehension of both corruption...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 551–558.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Michael J. Watts Abstract Moral Economies of Corruption is an important intervention, and Steven Pierce provides an alternative way of viewing the long history of anticorruption programs in Nigeria. As Michael J. Watts' contribution discusses, there are a number of dangers that lurk...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 547–551.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Sunila S. Kale Abstract The subjects of crime and corruption remain perennially important for social scientists concerned with the nature of power, authority, and order. Steven Pierce's Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria and Milan Vaishnav's When Crime...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 558–562.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Sandipto Dasgupta Abstract The central paradox of corruption in the political life of the global South is how such a widely despised phenomenon persists so untroubled by allthe negative attention. The two books under discussion—Steven Pierce's Moral Economies of Corruption and Milan Vaishnav's When...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 563–565.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Steven Pierce Abstract The commentaries in this Kitabkhana on Milan Vaishnav's When Crime Pays and Steven Pierce's Moral Economies of Corruption provide ample food for thought about the social-scientific study of crime and corruption. All agree on the importance of focusing on actual practice...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 562–563.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Milan Vaishnav Abstract The review essays by Sunila S. Kale, Sandipto Dasgupta, and Michael J. Watts on Milan Vaishnav's When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics and Steven Pierce's Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria raise a number...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 149–163.
Published: 01 May 2011
... acceptance as a secondary school textbook represents the fixing of a historiographical orthodoxy that categorized Ottoman rule as alien, corrupt, and retrograde, a view that remains dominant in Egyptian popular consciousness until today. Duke University Press 2011 Egyptian Views of Ottoman Rule...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 556–572.
Published: 01 December 2009
... in the polity. This new political dispensation, which the author calls the “Second Empire,” came to be remembered retrospectively as a corrupt version of the patrimonial empire that it had replaced mainly because its history was produced by the Ottoman New Order that destroyed the political structures...
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in “I Do Not Forgive!”: Hope and Refusal in Tunisia's Democratic Transition
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 August 2021
Figure 1. “President of the Tunisian Hereditary Republic, Official Patron of Corruption.” Béji Caïd Essebsi presents his Reconciliation Law. Image reproduced with permission by Hamza Trayia.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 205–221.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Figure 1. “President of the Tunisian Hereditary Republic, Official Patron of Corruption.” Béji Caïd Essebsi presents his Reconciliation Law. Image reproduced with permission by Hamza Trayia. ...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (2): 101–113.
Published: 01 August 1996
... near-decade-long, democratic ers and enter politics for corruption.
transition has frequently been interrupted by execu- Unlike the previous three constitutionally-
tive coups d’ktat, violating the spirit of democracy, if permitted dismissals of governments in 1988, 1990...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2002) 22 (1-2): 127–139.
Published: 01 August 2002
... array of goods.
expenditure on education, the disincentives of unemployment Where is the oil-export revenue? Reports of the presi-
and corruption, poorly paid teachers, decrepit and unheated dential family, members of “the clan” and inner circle, stash-
schools, the system has broken down completely...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 466–480.
Published: 01 December 2015
... . “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight.” In The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays , 412 – 54 . London : Fontana , 1973 . Gupta Akhil . “Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State.” American Ethnologist 22 , no. 2...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 272–275.
Published: 01 December 2013
... there are no signs that universities or research Anna Hazare campaign against corruption in 2011,
institutions are even aware of these perils to free- but most of the writing on the issue of corruption
dom of thought. If anything, they are more likely showed that very little thought had been given...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 359–360.
Published: 01 December 2019
... We close this issue with a Kitabkhana examining two books on the political economies of corruption: Steven Pierce's Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria (2016) and Milan Vaishnav's When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics (2017). Pierce...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 423–440.
Published: 01 December 2021
... [landline] services and infrastructure.” The problem was ubiquitous, with Kenyans painting a picture of an “inefficient” and “badly managed” company that functioned more as a “platform for political patronage and corruption than [as] a genuine service provider.” 27 Critics claimed that government foot...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 32–46.
Published: 01 May 2010
... for further intolerance.
the government and the Islamists, undertaken Many secular intellectuals believe that it
through the co-optation of a significant section is better to tolerate the current corrupt regime
of the secularists, takes...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 119–132.
Published: 01 May 2010
...,
eration Awakens (RDB ), which depicts the righteous anger of youth who spontaneously take
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to the streets in frustration at the state’s corruption and inefficiency.2 Candlelight vigils and East...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1990) 10 (2): 54–57.
Published: 01 August 1990
... and such other persons as it may
The
deem and appoint one of them to be its chairman. 11. Elimination of bribery and corruption:
fit State shall take legislative...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (2): 82–99.
Published: 01 August 1997
... for political pa-
ions have been active forces challenging authoritarian
tronage.I3 The political and economic space opened by
regimes, denouncing the corruption and high-
the loosening of state...
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