Neopatrimonialism and corruption: towards a new common senseFootnote^*

* This paper was prepared for the ACCERUS BRICS project. The first two papers in this series focused on Brazil (Kai and Khan Citation2018) and India (Sudarshan and Khan Citation2017). In contrast, this paper is more conceptual and theoretical in nature.

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