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100	1	0	_aBlundo, Giorgio _eauthor
245	0	0	_aDealing with the State from Day to Day: Business Agents, Brokers, and Touts on the Lookout for the Loopholes in the Senegalese Administration
260			_c2001.
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520			_aUsing material obtained during an on-going comparative study of the mechanisms and representations of low-level corruption in West Africa, this article analyses the main features of brokerage in the administration of justice, customs and local tax offices in Senegal. Unofficial staff, usually on temporary assignment, unpaid, or undeclared, seek to overcome the difficulties in obtaining access to bureaucratie institutions, while taking advantage of these difficulties to make corrupt transactions. Made possible by an opaque administration, which is understaffed, barely supervised and endowed with inordinate discretionary power, these supernumeraries facilitate the daily functioning of the Senegal administration in its post-adjustment phase and its circumvention. Using an ethnographical approach to the links between public service and users, the article describes the principal methods of operation at the local government level – which encourage them to serve as intermediaries and brokers – and foresees the emergence of informai forms of privatisation and increasing informality within institutions as a way of managing state administration on a day-to-day basis.
690			_apublic services
690			_alocal taxation
690			_acorruption
690			_ainformal privatisation
690			_abrokerage
690			_acustoms
690			_aSénégal
690			_ajustice
786	0		_nAutrepart | o 20 | 4 | 2001-12-01 | p. 75-90 | 1278-3986
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-autrepart-2001-4-page-75?lang=en
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