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

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

Distilling seminal contributions on political order and mismanagement through a more focused sociological filter, mismanagement can be conceptualized as a mechanism along…

Existing social structures and cultural codes that permeate all spheres of society—‘traditional’ and ‘modern’; economic, social, and political—make the inclusion of citizens…

The view provides a frame of reference to one prominent scholar, namely James Scott, who in his “Analysis of Corruption in Developing…

Fundamentals indicate that the exploration and conceptualization of mismanagement oscillate around the relationship between state and society. This is what makes the…

The specifically modern social imaginaries of neo-patrimonial states are both more diverse as well as more constrained than in legal-civic states. To…

Against this backdrop of, one is tempted to say, the normalization of (traits of ) state failure, possibly the tables should be turned…