Roger Tangri, Andrew Mwenda

The Politics of Elite Corruption in Africa

Uganda in Comparative African Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

This book considers the causes of high-level state corruption as well as the political constraints of countering corruption in Africa. It examines elite corruption in government as well as in the political and military spheres of state activity, and focuses on illegal behaviour on the part of state and non-state actors in decision-making.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781138496286
• ISBN-10: 1138496286
• Artikelnr.: 57042642

Autorenporträt

Roger Tangri is a visiting scholar in the Center for African Studies at Stanford University, USA. Andrew M. Mwenda is the founder and managing director of The Independent, a current affairs news magazine in Uganda.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction 1. Causes, Costs and Control of Corruption in Africa
2. Understanding the Politics of Elite Corruption in Africa Part II: Elite
Corruption in the Context of Uganda's Political Economy under the NRM 3.
Politics of Reform and Donor-Government Relations 4. Elite Corruption and
Regime Consolidation Part III: Case Studies of Elite Corruption in Uganda
under the NRM 5. Corruption in the Privatization Process 6. Military
Corruption since the 1990s 7. Foreign Business and State Corruption 8.
Political Finance Corruption 9. Electoral Corruption 10. Politics and the
Ineffectiveness of Anti-Corruption Institutions 11. International Donors
and the Limits of Countering Corruption Part IV: Conclusion 12. Executive
Dominance and Elite Corruption in Uganda 13. African Politics and Elite
Corruption