Politics in Color and Concrete: Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary. Krisztina Fehérváry. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. 288 pp.

Abstract

Perhaps no explanation for Africa's political troubles and economic malaise has been proffered more ubiquitously than corruption. With its long list of leaders who have enriched themselves while in office and the everyday hassles of police extortion and bureaucrats seeking bribes, probably no single country has a worse reputation for corruption