The Politics of Elite Corruption in Africa: Uganda in Comparative African Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781138496286 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str.

Roger Tangri; Andrew M. Mwenda

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.