Culture of Corruption Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria

Name: Culture of Corruption Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria
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ISBN: 9780691136479

ISBN-10: 0691136475

ISBN-13: 9780691136479

Edition: 2006

Authors: Daniel Jordan Smith

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E-mails proposing an "urgent business relationship" help make fraud Nigeria's largest source of foreign revenue after oil. But scams are also a central part of Nigeria's domestic cultural landscape. Corruption is so widespread in Nigeria that its citizens call it simply "the Nigerian factor." Willing or unwilling participants in corruption at every turn, Nigerians are deeply ambivalent about it--resigning themselves to it, justifying it, or complaining about it. They are painfully aware of the damage corruption does to their country and see themselves as their own worst enemies, but they have been unable to stop it.A Culture of Corruptionis a profound and sympathetic attempt to understand…

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/16/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.21" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Boris Groysberg is professor of business administration at Harvard Business School.



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



"Urgent Business Relationship": Nigerian E-Mail Scams



From Favoritism to 419: Corruption in Everyday Life



Development Scams: Donors, Dollars, and NGO Entrepreneurs



"Fair Play Even among Robbers": Democracy, Politics, and Corruption



Rumors, Riots, and Diabolical Rituals



"They Became the Criminals They Were Supposed to Fight": Crime, Corruption, and Vigilante Justice



Anticorruption Aspirations: Biafrans and Born-again Christians


Conclusion


Appendix


Notes


References


Index