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100 1 $aReno, William,$d1962-$eauthor.$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no93009544
245 10 $aCorruption and state politics in Sierra Leone /$cWilliam Reno.
264 1 $aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1995.
300 $axii, 229 pages :$bmaps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aAfrican studies series ;$v83
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 213-222) and index.
505 0 $a1. Informal markets and the Shadow State: Some theoretical issues -- 2. Colonial rule and the social foundations of the Shadow State -- 3. Elite hegemony and the threat of political and economic reform -- 4. Reining in the informal markets: The early Stevens years, 1968-1973 -- 5. An exchange of services: State power and the diamond business -- 6. The Shadow State and international commerce -- 7. Foreign firms, economic "reform," and Shadow State power -- 8. The changing character of African Sovereignty.
520 $aWilliam Reno provides a powerful, scholarly yet shocking account of the inner workings of an African state. He focuses upon the ties between foreign firms and African rulers in Sierra Leone, where politicians and warlords use private networks that exploit relationships with international businesses to buttress their wealth and so extend their powers of patronage.
520 8 $aThis permits them to expand the reach of their governments in unorthodox ways, but in the process they undermine the bureaucracy of their own states. Dr Reno suggests that as the post-colonial state is eroded there is a return to the enclave economies and private armies that characterized the pre-colonial and colonial arrangements between European businessmen or administrators and some African political figures.
650 0 $aPolitical corruption$zSierra Leone.
650 0 $aBusiness and politics$zSierra Leone.
650 0 $aInternational business enterprises$xPolitical activity$zSierra Leone.
830 0 $aAfrican studies series ;$v83.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42001393
852 00 $bleh$hJQ3121.A56$iC6 1995
852 00 $bglx$hJQ3121.A56$iC6 1995
541 1 $cGift;$aIrving Leonard Markovitz;$d2017.