Corruption fights back: Localizing transparency and EITI in the Nigerian penkelemes

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ejiogu, Amanze; Ejiogu, Chibuzo; Ambituuni, Ambisisi
• 署名单位: University of Leicester; De Montfort University; Coventry University
• 刊物名称: GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0952-1895
• DOI: 10.1111/gove.12530
• 发表日期: 2021
• 关键词: LOCALIZATION; governance; disclosure; diffusion; NORMS

摘要

This study explores how the global transparency norm is localized in the Nigerian extractive industry. Transparency is theorized as a process which can be analyzed in terms of rules, interactions, power games, and context. Nigeria is conceptualized as a penkelemes-a concept which denotes how traditions, norms, and practices are intertwined with a system of corruption, kinship, and patronage networks. Three main insights emerge. First, the complex motives and ability of local actors to balance demands for transparency from the international community with participation in the corrupt local political system determines which international norms they adopt. Second, the struggle for power over the transparency process determines the local understanding of transparency. Third, the link between transparency and corruption is paradoxical. Corruption conditions the enactment of transparency but even this corrupted transparency is useful in fighting corruption. Thus, transparency becomes part of the problem as well as part of the solution.