The Pleasures of Corruption: Desire and Discipline in Ghanaian Political Culture.
The writer contrasts popular understandings of corruption in public discourse with official practices of anticorruption in Ghana's state institutions. She contends that whereas global disciplinary campaigns against corruption hone in on selfishness and greed, local anticorruption practices intersec...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Anthropology Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 271 - 302 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May 2005
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