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A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria. By Daniel Jordan Smith

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A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria. By SmithDaniel Jordan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 296p. $25.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2010

Eric M. Uslaner
Eric M. Uslaner
Affiliation:
University of Maryland–College Park
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I first came upon Daniel Jordan Smith's remarkable book as I was close to finishing my own book on corruption (Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law, 2008). I had decided that I needed to include an analysis of Africa and especially Nigeria. At the publisher's booth at one or another political science convention, I was able to secure page proofs of his book and realized that I had come upon a kindred spirit. Smith's argument on Nigeria was remarkably similar to my general framework for analyzing corruption, despite our coming from different disciplines and using very different methodologies.

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Critical Dialogue
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 2010 , pp. 1175 - 1176
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2010

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