October 2022

The analysis Olivier de Sardan offers is remarkably insightful, illuminating diverse facets of the corruption complex. Rather disappointingly, he then reaches a…

“Don’t just keep telling us ‘stop working’. We work because we have to eat. We work because, for us, it is a…

As we have seen, conventional wisdom has it that political order is characterized by a whole list of patrimonial networks and personalistic,…

The concern of development discourse with the institutional configuration of, first, the markets, and, secondly, the political order, highlighted the institutional deficiencies…

The descriptive tasks which the notion of a sensitizing device entails invite the researcher to make a clear analytical distinction between, on…

The Wise Lord, the renowned and tremendous all-compeller, the enactor, the knowing keeper of servants, is reminding the children of Adam of…

“Given the durability of vertical social relations and the endurance of certain forms of political representation, corruption remains instrumentally rational” (Chabol/Daloz 1999).…