States at work : dynamics of African bureaucracies / edited by Thomas Bierschenk, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan.
Material type: TextSeries: African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 12.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 440 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9789004264960
- 9004264965
- 9781306447607
- 1306447607
- Public administration -- Africa
- Bureaucracy -- Africa
- Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
- Africa -- Economic policy
- Economic development -- Africa
- State, The
- Administration publique (Science) -- Afrique
- Bureaucratie -- Afrique
- Afrique -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1960-
- Afrique -- Politique économique
- Développement économique -- Afrique
- État
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Executive Branch
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
- Bureaucracy
- Economic development
- Economic policy
- Politics and government
- Public administration
- State, The
- Africa
- JQ1875 .S73 2014eb
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Includes index.
Studying the dynamics of African bureaucracies : an introduction to states at work / Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan -- Ethnographies of public services in Africa : an emerging research paradigm / Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan -- Seeing like a state agent : the ethnography of reform in Senegal's forestry services / Giorgio Blundo -- Factionalism and staff success in a Nigerian university : a departmental case study / Chris Willott -- Working in neopatrimonial settings : public sector staff perceptions in Tanzania and Uganda / Ole Therkildsen -- "We make do and keep going!" Inventive practices and ordered informality in the functioning of the district courts in Niamey and Zinger (Niger) / Oumarou Hamani -- "I take an oath to the state, not the government" : career trajectories and professional ethics of Ghanaian public servants / Carola Lentz -- "We must run while others walk" : African civil servants, state ideologies and bureaucratic practices in Tanzania, from the 1950s to the 1970s / Andreas Eckert -- Sedimentation, fragmentation and normative double-binds in (West) African public services / Thomas Bierschenk -- The politics of reform: a case study of bureaucracy at the ministry of basic education in Cameroon / Helene Charton -- Building state capacities? The case of the poverty reduction unit in Mali / Isaline Bergamaschi -- A breeding ground for revenue reliability? Cameroonian veterinary agents and tax officials in the face of reform / Jose-Maria Munoz -- Old-school bureaucrats and technocrats in Malawi : civil service reform in practice / Gerhard Anders -- Teachers unions and the selective appropriation of public service reforms in Benin / Azizou Chabi Imorou -- The state that works : a 'pockets of effectiveness' perspective on Nigeria and beyond / Michael Roll -- The delivery state in Africa : interface bureaucrats, professional cultures and the bureaucratic mode of governance / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan.
Print version record.
States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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